1. Ms Bacharam was charged for a traffic offence and summoned to appear in the Scottburgh District Court on 13 December 2005. She had an option to pay an admission of guilt fine of R300-00 (three hundred rand). On 27 October 2005, she was approached in her office by the Sheriff for service of the summons. Instead of accepting service of the summons, she called an interpreter to her office and requested her to accept service of the summons on her behalf. The interpreter subsequently signed on the return of service and left Ms Bacharam's office. On 13 December 2005, the date of trial, all traffic summonses were brought before Ms Bacharam. She dealt with the cases, including her own. She, herself, struck case no B7309/05 in which she was an accused, from the roll. The case was thereafter filed. She did not pay the admission of guilt fine.