Read the full judgment text of CACC 000260/1986 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. In this application for leave to appeal leave was obtained to call further evidence. Upon the application for leave to call further evidence one of the arguments advanced – and that which persuaded the court somewhat reluctantly to give leave – was that the Appellant may have been suffering from a mental state called paradoxical rage, the substance of which for our purposes is that the patient may act in a manner over which he has no control. It was thus suggested not that it was enough to sh