Read the full judgment text of CACC 000619/1977 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. In this case the appellant was convicted on his own confessions. They were written in a police notebook produced at the trial by a police constable. The appellant was not then represented and raised no objection when the notebook was first introduced into evidence. The learned magistrate did not at that stage ask him whether he wished to do so. The law does not require that the magistrate should: Reg. v. Wong Hing-chung (1) . This does not mean of course that a magistrate may not do so if in