Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001300/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 28 February 1997.
1. The appellant was convicted of two charges of indecent assault of a 5 year old girl. The main witness of the prosecution is PW1 the victim. She had given a video recorded interview prior to the trial. The admissibility of this video record as her evidence in chief was debated before a magistrate who was not the trial magistrate. During those proceedings, the magistrate ruled that the video record was admissible. The issue of admissibility was not at issue before the trial magistrate. The vide