To secure a conviction for murder under subsection (3) of section 316, the prosecution must prove that the death of the deceased was caused by means…

Where an extra judicial confessional statement of an accused person is retracted at the trial, a long line of cases has laid it down that some…

Once the trial judge exercised his power of transfer to a Magistrate Court for trial from the three cases consolidated by him, he has no power…

Where a party has consented to a wrong procedure at the trial and in fact suffers no injustice, it would be too late to complain on…

The consolidation of two actions does not render the evidence tendered in one ipso facto evidence in the other.

Consolidation will also be refused where it would likely cause embarrassment at the trial such as where the actions are by different plaintiffs, based on the…

Causes or matters pending in the same court may, by order of the court, be consolidated for purposes of hearing and determination. When, therefore, suits are…

The purpose of consolidation, it has been said, is to save costs and time, and therefore it will not usually be ordered unless there is some…

No interlocutory judgment or order from which there has been no appeal shall operate so as to bar or prejudice the court from giving such decision…

Where a cause or matter is heard and ruling or judgment is delivered without jurisdiction, the proceedings will be a nullity and can neither be used…

Having appealed to the Court of Appeal, all matters relating to that appeal must be agitated at that Court. Therefore, the motions which have now led…

Averments made in an affidavit which remained uncontradicted are deemed admitted and can properly be relied upon by the court in reaching its conclusions.