Read the full judgment text of CACV 000001/1973 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This is in substance an appeal against an assessment of damages. The Plaintiff sued in the Supreme Court for damages for assault. She claimed a sum of $20,000 by way of general damages. There was no claim for special damages, although, in fact she has repeatedly maintained that there was some damage to her clothing and to a wig. The Defence did not, strangely enough in the circumstances, raise any defence under s.38 of the Offences Against the Person Ordinance, but was a simple denial of the