Read the full judgment text of CACC 000446/2000 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 13 June 2001.
1. I refuse the Applicants leave to appeal against their convictions, but I wish to comment on two of the arguments raised by them. First, identification was not an issue in the case. What was in issue was what each of the persons present at the scene was supposed to have done. Thus, it was unnecessary for the judge to give himself a Turnbull direction. Moreover, an identification parade would not have been appropriate, and it was permissible for the station sergeant to ask the two undercover po