Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000985/2007 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 29 November 2007.
1. This is an appeal against a conviction for careless driving. The facts are very simple. The appellant was driving his employers' motor vehicle in a queue of slow-moving traffic on Repulse Bay Road and it is quite clear that his car touched the car in front. He did not give evidence to deny that in the trial below. He called his employer, who was in the car, and whilst the employer disputed how hard the contact was between her vehicle and the one in front, she conceded, in effect, that the