Read the full judgment text of FAMC 10/2012 on BabelCite. This FAMC judgment was delivered on 6 July 2012.
1. In convicting of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, the magistrate accepted the victim’s evidence that the defendants had attacked her in the way which she described. The appeal judge felt unable to support that conclusion. So he quashed the convictions for assault occasioning actual bodily harm. But he noted that one of the defendants, who is now the applicant before us, had admitted in the witness-box that she had slapped the victim. Upon that admission, he substituted, in the case