Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000379/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 23 June 1998.
1. The Appellant pleaded guilty to reckless driving and on 19th March 1998, he was convicted and fined $5,000 and disqualified from driving for six months. When he pleaded guilty, he had appeared in person. On 30th March 1998, he appeared again with Counsel and initially sought a reversal of his plea of guilty. When that was refused, he, through his Counsel, sought a review of the sentence imposed. Counsel quite properly put forward all the mitigating factors in a bid to ask the Magistrate to re