Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001131/1999 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 7 September 2000.
1. The Appellant appeals against her conviction and sentence in respect of a charge of Theft. The facts of the theft were that she stole from her employer the sum of $162.00 during a period when she was working as a shop assistant. The chief and only ground of the appeal is that the Tagalog interpreter provided by the court at trial, failed properly and/or fully to translate the proceedings and it is stated that of particular significance in this appeal was the mistranslation of questions which