Read the full judgment text of FACV 000020/2006 on BabelCite. This FACV judgment.
1. Where a trial court has inordinately delayed giving judgment it is appropriate for the appellate court to emphasise, for the purpose of future cases, that litigants are entitled to have their cases decided with reasonable promptitude. And then the appellate court must get down to doing the best practical justice it can in the case at hand. We would not rule out the possibility of circumstances in which, however hard one tries to avoid it, a new trial has to be ordered. That, mercifully, is