CCT28/97

[1998] ZACC 5

1998 (3) SA 695 (CC)

1998 (6) BCLR 656 (CC)

Kriegler J

10 March 1998

12 May 1998

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12144/2045

Appeal against part of a judgment of the High Court in Wild and Another v Hoffert NO and Others 1997 (7) BCLR 974 (N) ; 1997 (2) SACR 233 (N), appeal dismissed.

Appeal against decision of Natal High Court in which applicants were refused constitutional relief for unreasonable delay before trial. Appeal dismissed, on basis that assuming there had been unreasonable delay, the relief prayed for (permanent stay of prosecution) was inappropriate because no evidence of trial-related prejudice or other extraordinary circumstances. Unanimous judgment written by Kriegler J.