Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000548/1985 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. I do not want to be over critical of the Police Officer concerned in this case. He may well have found himself in a difficult situation, as always is the case when coming upon what was, as here, a domestic quarrel. Essentially it was a domestic quarrel over a lady's handbag. Although the complainant wife said it was stolen, when the Police Officer entered the matrimonial home, it was clear that the handbag, far from being stolen, was on the top of a wardrobe, presumably out of reach of the wi