Principle Archive

Conversion is a tort actionable in the State High Court. That is exactly what the plaintiff did, and the commencement of the action in that court…

A State High Court has no jurisdiction in matters under section 230(1)(d) of Decree 107 except disputes between an individual customer and his bank. Items listed…

A person can be in possession through a third party, such as a servant, agent, or tenant. Also, possession of a predecessor in title is in…

A claim for trespass is not dependent on a claim for declaration of title. The issues for trespass are whether the plaintiff has established actual possession…

A claim for an injunction is not necessarily to fail after a claim for a declaration of title fails, provided the area of land in respect…

Substitution of a charge has the same meaning and effect as alteration. Where a charge is altered, the new charge is read to the accused and…

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.