Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000651/1999 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 17 December 1999.
1. The appeal against conviction is dismissed. In my view, there was sufficient evidence for the Magistrate to have found the Appellant guilty and I find there is nothing in ground 2, which was the allegation that there was a material irregularity in the trial because counsel was stopped from cross-examining PW1 on the cost of repair to PW1's vehicle. That was a matter which was not relevant to the driving charge and so the Magistrate was quite entitled to stop counsel from pursuing that particu