Read the full judgment text of CACV 000055/1979 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 4 February 1980.
1. An important issue arose in this case as to the legality of an arrest without a warrant. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th Defendants are officers in the Independent Commission Against Corruption. They received information from a taxi driver that the Respondent, a police constable, had solicited and accepted a bribe as an incentive not to proceed with a prosecution for some minor offences. They questioned the taxi driver very closely and, as a result of the answers he gave, believed that the Respondent ha