For this court to have jurisdiction to hear and determine an appeal before it, no leave is required where the grounds of appeal involves question of…

The law is therefore trite… that where the condition precedent to the exercise of the right of appeal is necessary but has not been fulfilled, there…

The court is required to examine thoroughly the grounds of appeal together with their particulars in order to see whether any of the grounds reveal a…

Where a co-accused raises a defence of alibi and is discharged, the discharge of one accused person cannot lead to the discharge of all accused persons…

It is an elementary principle of law that the function of evaluation of evidence, is essentially that of the trial Judge. When he satisfactorily performs this,…

There is no law which precludes a blood relation of a deceased person from testifying for the prosecution. In many cases when murder is committed in…

Although the burden on the prosecution is to prove its case against the accused person beyond reasonable doubt, the prosecution, has a discretion to call only…

A court can and is entitled to act on the evidence of one single witness if the witness is believed given all the circumstances of the…

Proof beyond reasonable doubt, is not attained by the number of witnesses fielded by the prosecution. It depends on the quality of the evidence tendered by…

The general inhibition of this Court from interfering with concurrent findings of fact by the two lower courts is now firmly settled. Unless the findings are…

It is not the case of the appellant that the respondents have no authority to compulsorily retire him. That being the case the next question is…

The respondents pleaded that appellant was paid his retirement benefits but produced no evidence, documentary or otherwise, to prove same — no voucher evidencing the payments…