Bamboozled brides, the supermarket shopper who sued after slipping on spilt sugar - the courts heard some bizarre cases last year. The Cape Town Magistrate's Court was centre stage for brides-to-be who parted with thousands of rands for wedding gowns that never arrived.Renette Haramis, 33, sold gowns through her Facebook page, "Wedding Junkie - affordable designer gowns".But several brides told the police that they paid for the gowns but never received them.Haramis was arrested and faces multiple charges of theft under false pretences.Since the arrest, the victims have set up a Facebook page called "Wedding assistance for WJ scammed brides" to help women in need of a gown.A Pretoria woman was awarded R1.1-million in damages after she slipped and fell on some brown sugar. Marie-Antoinette de Lange, 46, sued Hercules Spar and it paid the sum in a settlement in terms of which it did not concede blame .Rahul Shashi Marajh, a pupil of Crawford College, KwaZulu-Natal, had to ask for extra writing time in his matric exams because he suffers from narcolepsy and is prone to falling asleep unexpectedly. The Pietermaritzburg High Court granted him an additional five minutes for every hour of exam time.A clerk at Empangeni Magistrate's Court, KwaZulu-Natal, found herself on the wrong side of the justice system when the Pietermaritzburg High Court slapped her with a R1000 fine for handing her employer a falsified doctor's note.Lee-Ann Jansen altered the date on the note and her doctor failed to come to her rescue on the witness stand.Acting magistrate Lukhanyo Zantsi found himself in the dock of his own court in Laingsburg, Western Cape, on criminal charges stemming from an alleged drinking problem. He faces 14 counts of misconduct and a probe into his fitness to hold office...