Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000677/1999 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 15 December 1999.
1. The grant of legal aid in this case was proper because the appeal was not unmeritorious. What caused concern to the Appellant's legal representative was the fact that PW1 had admitted to a police officer that, at the time of the accident, he had not paid attention to the fact that there was a vehicle approaching him from his left, and also the observations by the trial Magistrate that he was of the view that if PW1 had paid attention, possibly he could have avoided the Appellant's vehicle and