[2025] EWCA Crim 1172

The applicant had previously applied for leave to appeal against sentence. He complained about the credit he had received for his guilty plea, when compared to others; the judge's finding that he had a leading or significant role; the starting points for the drugs and firearms offences; and the principle of totality.

The single judge refused leave to appeal, and there was no prompt renewal of the application for leave to appeal against sentence, although Mr Forte explained that that was because of concerns that if the Legal Ombudsman, to whom the applicant proposed to complain, did find failures in the legal advice given, there would be no route back to the Court of Appeal if the renewed application had been dealt with in the interim.