Section 135: Fair trial – Criminal proceedings – Hearing in camera—The appellant
consolidated text (as at 2017). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
135. Fair trial – Criminal proceedings – Hearing in camera—The appellant
was convicted of the offence of insult. It was alleged that he had used vulgar language towards a female colleague. At the trial the latter’s request that
the proceedings be held in camera was granted by the Magistrate “in the
interests of justice” in spite of the appellant’s objection. The appellate Court
quashed the conviction. Maroam v State (1998).
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