Read the full judgment text of CACC 000401/2001 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 22 March 2002.
1. The reason given by the applicant for not making the application timeously is not a good one. The Court of Appeal has held that reductions will not normally be made for persons from the Mainland serving prison sentence on the ground of additional hardship. There are many factors to be considered. Even if this were not the case, it has to be said that any appeal by this applicant would have no chance of success. The offences in question were very serious offences involving a degree of violence