18 Oct 1979
RE JOHN KEPPEL STONHAM
- Citation
- RE JOHN KEPPEL STONHAM
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP334/1979
The Full Bench held that a magistrate may not of his own motion take judicial notice of a previous conviction or introduce antecedents not evidenced before the court; previous convictions must be proved or admitted, and lacking statutory authority to the contrary the magistrate's review which relied on such unproved antecedents constituted an error on the face of the record warranting certiorari.