cellphone

Sarah Schmidt
Canwest News Service
hursday, April 03, 2008

A former Quebec couple has scored a key legal victory for cellphone customers after a judge ruled they were duped into signing three-year contracts with Telus Mobility Inc. with a misleading promotion.

The State would try to admit cellphone audio and video recordings in the drunk driving trial of Pretoria High Court judge Nkola Motata being heard in the Johannesburg magistrate's court on Thursday.

The recordings were made by Richard James Baird, into whose wall Motata crashed.

Baird recorded them on his cellphone and then copied them onto a computer.

They were placed on a memory stick, then downloaded onto his attorney's computer. The information was then placed on a CD which was given to prosecutor Zaais van Zyl.

Baird told the court that the copy was made by his attorney in his presence.

The cellphone he used was now broken.

The court adjourned again for another 10 minutes, barely half an hour after the previous adjournment, during which equipment to show the contents of the CD was being set up.

Before the adjournment the State had indicated that its intention was firstly to allow Baird to confirm that the CD was the one that he had given Van Zyl, and then to show the contents of the CD.

The judge is facing a charge of driving under the influence of liquor or drugs with an alternative count of reckless and negligent driving and a charge of defeating the ends of justice with an alternative charge of resisting arrest relating to accident in Hurlingham, Johannesburg on January 6.

Earlier the court ruled that a copy of hand written personal details Motata provided after the accident was not admissible and that the original should be found. - Sapa

Quickwire

Published on the Web by IOL on 2007-09-27 11:18:04

Alternatively that part of the perimeter fence in line with the nearest
cellphone tower could include wire mesh (I think that it would be 1/2
wavelength) that would absorb signals to and from the cellphone tower. All
cellphones in the sheltered area would be useless. End of problem.

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