Read the full judgment text of FAMC 000007/2009 on BabelCite. This FAMC judgment was delivered on 26 March 2009.
1. It is complained that the joinder of these two charges was a departure from accepted norms. In our view, the trial together of two charges like these is within accepted norms. It is then complained that the magistrate misused evidence on the 1st charge to convict on the 2nd charge. In the circumstances, we do not think that the evidence on the 1st charge could have adversely affected a proper consideration of whether the driver involved in the 2nd charge was reliable in his evidence. And