Read the full judgment text of CACC 000564/1997 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 12 March 1998.
1. The Applicant was charged with three charges. The first was for rape. The second which was in the alternative was for unlawful sexual intercourse with the girl under the age of 16 and the third was for arson. There were discussions between those advising the Applicant at the time and the prosecution concerning the possibility of pleas of guilty to the second and third charges. This was based on the fact that the Applicant accepted in general terms that the incidents in question had taken plac