Failure to appeal does not unequivocally indicate an acceptance of a decision where, as in this case, there is a clear demonstration of intention to challenge…

That counsel's error of judgment, if reasonable, is an acceptable explanation for delay to apply for leave to appeal or to appeal within the prescribed time…

Where the ground of appeal complains that the tribunal has failed to fulfil an obligation cast upon it by law in the process of coming to…

The approach to the determination whether a ground of appeal involves a question of law or of fact or of mixed law and fact... what is…

The discretion to grant leave to a party to amend his ground of appeal is liberally exercised in so far as an amendment can be made…

The fact that the accused does not understand the language in which the trial is being conducted is a fact well known to the accused and…

There is here an unbroken chain of evidence sufficient to point unequivocally that the appellant committed the crime charged.

It is said to be evidence of surrounding circumstances which by undersigned coincidence is capable of proving a proposition with mathematical accuracy. It is no derogation…

A conviction on circumstantial evidence cannot be based unless and until all the inferences to be drawn from the whole history of the case point strongly…

The provision of the law should not be stretched to a point of absurdity by reading into it that the Judge must record that the charge…

The provisions of section 215 of Criminal Procedure Law and section 33(6)(a) and (e) of 1979 Constitution now section 36(a) and (e) of the 1999 Constitution…

At the stage when Exhibit Q was annexed to the respondent's counter-affidavit the Court of Appeal was concerned not with the appeal challenging the decision of…