CHAIRPERSON
Isn't that putting it too simplistically, Mr Hattingh?   Here we have a sentenced person, who, fortunately for him, has now been given an opportunity to relieve himself of the burdens of that sentence.   You wish to use a document to threaten and risk those opportunities, which you're entitled to do.    The manner in which the attempt is made is by means of a possibly defective document, which is the subject matter of this argument.   Now it's all very well to say he's not standing here as an accused, but we cannot forget he sits here as a sentenced person, who's taking advantage of an opportunity and a right to relieve himself of those burdens, and consequently it's my view that any document that puts those rights at risk, he's virtually in the same position as if he were an accused, not so?