Principle Archive

A plaintiff who only claims declarations so long as he pleads sufficient interest in the subject-matter of the suit, has the necessary locus standi to prosecute…

The question whether or not a plaintiff has a locus standi in a suit is determinable from a totality of all the averments in his statement…

Unless in the clearest of cases, an intermediate court should endeavour to resolve all issues put before it. There are decided cases of this court which…

A free and voluntary confession of guilt made by an accused person, if it is direct and positive, is sufficient to warrant his conviction without any…

Where the facts proved by the prosecution do not fall within any of the circumstances enumerated in Section 316 of the Criminal Code for the offence…

The test for whether an act is of a nature likely to endanger human life must depend on whether death or the loss of human life…

Where death results from the very act of ravishment, the act and the purpose are one and the same thing. In such circumstances, in the absence…

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.