Read the full judgment text of FAMC 000036/2002 on BabelCite. This FAMC judgment was delivered on 8 January 2003.
1. This applicant was convicted in the Magistrate's Court of indecent assault. His appeal to the High Court was dismissed. He now seeks leave to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal. He contends that it is reasonably arguable that he has suffered substantial and grave injustice in that exculpatory evidence in his favour had been ignored by the Magistrate and that this omission on the Magistrate's part had itself in turn been ignored by the intermediate appellate court. What was this evidence? It