Read the full judgment text of HCAL 000077/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 15 December 1998.
1. This application for judicial review relates to a trial in the District Court. The judge set aside the convictions which he had recorded against the Respondent a few days earlier, and he also set aside the sentences which he had passed. The circumstances are unusual, and they show how easily things can go wrong even when a judge conscientiously endeavours to be as fair as possible to a defendant. I shall refer to the Applicant and the Respondent as the prosecution and the Defendant respective