Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001205/1995 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 17 January 1996.
1. This was an appeal against a sentence of six months' imprisonment for using an unlawfully obtained travel document. The appellant acknowledged that the sentence itself was generously light but asked for a reduction because of his wife's illness in Pakistan. As his release date was only a month away, I decided, as an act of mercy, to reduce his sentence so that he could be released immediately.