Read the full judgment text of CACV 000032/1970 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 7 January 1971.
3. It is the manifest intention disclosed by the Rules that as a general rule a shorthand note shall be taken and made available upon an appeal. There can be no question of making a blanket direction or intimation, which would defeat that manifest intention: each case must be considered on its merits. Nor should a direction or intimation be lightly made - and never without hearing the parties or their professional advisers. Where a direction is made under Rule 1(1) the judge should state very cl