Read the full judgment text of HCCC 000280/1991 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 12 January 1993.
1. Mr McNAMARA for the defence seeks the court's intervention to stay these proceedings on two separate but similar grounds. He submits firstly that a trial would be an abuse of the process of the court, and secondly that it would infringe Article 10 of the Bill of Rights, entitling the defendant to a fair hearing. In deference to the long and careful arguments of both counsel, as well as to the seriousness of this matter, I shall discuss the relevant principles and my own conclusions at some le