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\fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 IN THE HIGH COURT OF FIJI
\par AT SUVA
\par CRIMINAL JURISDICTION
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\par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid7484006 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006 CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.: HAA0}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 
105 OF 2004
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\par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid7484006 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 BETWEEN:
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\par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid7484006 {\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 JEKESONI VULI
\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 Appellant
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\par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid7484006 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 AND:
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\par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid7484006 {\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 STATE
\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 Respondent
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006 Hearing & Ruling: }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 29th November, 2004
\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006 Counsel: }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 Mr. A. Vakaloloma \endash  for the Appellant
\par Ms. A. Prasad \endash  for State
\par 
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\par }{\b\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 Introduction
\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 
\par This is an extemporary ruling on bail pending appeal.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 
As such I reserve my rights to perfect and amend the judgment in any way appropriate.
\par 
\par The applicant is asking the Court to exercise its discretion to provide him with bail pending his appeal.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 
He was convicted on the 16th of July, 2003 on one count of unlawful use of a motor vehicle contrary to Section 292 of the Penal Code (Cap.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 17) and one count of robbery with violence contrary to Section 293 of the Penal Code (Cap.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 17).}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 
He received a six-month and 5 year concurrent sentence respectively.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 An effective term of imprisonment of 5 years.}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 He is going to be eligible for early release parole in the month of June 2006.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006 
 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 
\par 
\par His appeal has been scheduled before me on the 11th of February 2005.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 
At that time he will have served 19 months of his effective 5 year term of imprisonment or a little over half of the practical term of imprisonment before his eligibility for early parole date.
\par 
\par }{\b\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 Decision
\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006 
\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 In the recent Court of Appeal Judgment }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 Ratu Seniloli & Others v The State,}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006  Criminal Appeal No. AAU0041/04S, the learned President of the Court of Appeal had a full opportunity to consider the Bail Act.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 His honour noted there is a considerable difference between a person who 
has not been convicted and to whom the presumption of innocence still applies and a person who has been convicted and sentenced to a term of imprisonment.
\par 
\par His honour noted that the presumption in favour of the granting of bail is displaced where the person has been convicted.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 
His honour was there echoing the statutory prescripts whereby the presumption of the innocent to bail is displaced once conviction is entered.
\par 
\par In earlier decisions I have reviewed the cases of }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 Quire and the State}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006  [1996] unreported AAU 0011/1996 and }{
\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 Apisai Tora v The Queen}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006  [1978] 24 FLR 28.
\par 
\par When commenting on those earlier decisions I have borne in mind the fundamental difference recognized by the learned President in the }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 Seniloli}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006  appeal had gone on to comment that Section 17(3) of the Bail Act can only be used when there is an outstanding chance of success of an appeal.}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 Each of the provisions of Section 17(3) are disjunctive and must be independently taken into account.}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 However, the overriding feature that one has to consider on appea
l is whether or not on the papers there is an outstanding chance of success for the appellant.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 
If there is not the other elements of the section become somewhat redundant.
\par 
\par I am prepared to accept that learned counsel for the Legal Aid Commission will seek my leave to amend the appeal and I indicate that leave is likely to be granted.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 However, even if I were to consider a much more focussed appeal the heart of the case concerns exercises of discretion by the judge at first instance.}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 Appeal review of such exercises of discretion are inevitably the subject of speculative but not outstanding appeal.}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 Learned Counsel was unable to point me to any particular passages in the record of the Magistrate\rquote 
s Court proceedings where the learned Magistrate fell clearly into error.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 
Accordingly, the very fact that the Court may be asked on appeal against conviction to review the exercise of the learned Magistrate\rquote s discretionary judgment must mean that the chances of success are not outstanding.
\par 
\par Section 17(3) goes on to require the Court to consider the likely time before the appeal hearing.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 
As I have earlier analyzed in this judgment;}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 
by the time the appeal hearing comes on the 11th of February next year, the appellant will only have served an effective 19 months of his practical jail sentence.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 That is one month over the half way period before his eligible parole date.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 In those circumstances I don\rquote t consider that as a lengthy time for him to spend in custody pending appeal.
\par 
\par In my view there is also not a significant impact on
 time served versus overall sentence. At the sentencing date he will have served 19 months of a 60 month sentence, that is, not a significant nor troublesome proportion of the original sentence for an appellant to have served prior to his appeal.}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 There are no other \lquote exceptional\rquote  bail circumstances.
\par 
\par }{\b\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 Conclusion
\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006 
\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 For all of these reasons while the application is well bought, at this time I am not in favour of granting Mr. Vuli bail pending appeal.}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 However, I do note for the record two things.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 Firstly, I indicate that if Counsel chooses to make an application for leave to bring an amended appeal I will grant it.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 Secondly, if for any reason the appeal can\rquote t be scheduled for the 11th of February 2005 and cannot proceed then I invite counsel to re-consider lodging
 a further bail application at that time.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7484006  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 I am obliged to counsel for the diligence and thoroughness of his submissions.
\par 
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\par }{\b\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6519862\charrsid7484006 JUDGE
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\par At Suva
\par 29th November, 2004
\par }}