Read the full judgment text of CACC 000176/1978 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. In this case the learned magistrate decided that it was proper to order that the Defendant be conditionally discharged under s.36(b) of the Magistrates Ordinance upon his entering into his own recognizance in the sum of $500 for a period of eighteen months. He was asked not to record a conviction and he expressed the view that it really did not matter whether he recorded a conviction or not and that not to do so would not assist the Appellant - in his words "it would not achieve the aim of th