Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000068/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 13 February 1996.
1. This was an appeal against a conviction for speeding. The only ground of appeal with any merit was that the learned Magistrate had failed to give adequate reasons for her finding of guilt in this case. I agreed. The learned Magistrate's findings were perfunctory in the extreme and give no reason whatsoever why it was that she found against the Defendant. Therefore I allowed the appeal. However, as this is a serious matter and supported by good evidence I thought that it ought to go back for r