Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000972/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 25 September 1996.
1. This is an appeal from Mr Wright, sitting at Eastern Magistracy, where the appellant was charged with possessing heroin. It was a relatively large amount of heroin for possession - 11.45 grammes - which the magistrate described as "unusually high purity". It may be, looking at Mr Wright's careful reasons which I sympathise with and understand, that he thought that this man should have been charged with trafficking, because he says : "I reminded myself that there is no such offence as unproven