Read the full judgment text of CACC 000378/1982 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 21 May 1982.
1. This is an appeal against a sentence in respect of an information alleging that the Appellant drove a motor-vehicle with a laden weight 186.95 cwts (or some 39%) in excess of its permitted weight. The Appellant pleaded guilty and admitted he had five convictions for similar offences. He was fined $750 and disqualified from driving all classes of vehicles for a period of four months. The appeal is, as usual in such cases, directed at the disqualification.