FRANCISTOWN: Justice Zibani Makhwade has ruled against a British man who had appealed his conviction of failing to comply with a child maintenance court order. Makhwade said the magistrate who convicted David Adamson was correct in his assertions that he could have supported his child from the proceeds of some of his assets that he had sold. In his judgment, Makhwade said that he has come to the conclusion that the appeal should not succeed because according to the evidence on record the magistrate was right to say that he should have paid the child maintenance from money obtained from sale of the assets.
The judge also said that the excuse that he (Adamson) could not run his business was not good enough. "The excuse that your ex-wife obstructed you from running your business is not good enough because child maintenance has nothing to do with all these issues," Makhwade said, asserting that a court order should be obeyed at all times. Makhwade advised Adamson that he should have applied for variation of the court order timeously.
