Section 131(3) of the Armed Forces Decree deals with delegation of power to convene a court martial. Relevant and related provisions must be read together and…

Officers on terminal leave are regarded as being in service until after the expiry of their terminal leave. By section 169(2), they are subject to service…

By the Firearms Act, a grenade is a prohibited firearm and a lethal weapon. The court can take judicial notice of this definition; no expert evidence…

The Supreme Court will not disturb or lightly depart from concurrent findings of fact of two lower courts unless in exceptional circumstances where such findings are…

Section 25 of the Criminal Code provides that an act done under an honest and reasonable but mistaken belief is not criminally responsible to any greater…

When an issue is not properly placed before the court, the court has no business whatsoever to deal with it.

On no account should a court raise a point suo motu, however clear it may appear, and then proceed to resolve it without inviting the parties…

In the determination of disputes between parties, the court should confine itself to the issues raised by the parties. The court is not competent to suo…

Where the court raises an issue suo motu and the issue goes to the root of the case, the parties must be given an opportunity to…

If several persons embark on an enterprise to commit a felony and have the preconceived common intention to use violence of any degree, if necessary, for…

Where a number of persons acting in concert join in an unlawful assault which results in the death of their victim, it is not mandatory for…

When two or more persons form a common intention to prosecute an unlawful purpose in conjunction with one another, and in the prosecution of such purpose…