Insurance Law - party taking out an burglary insurance policy - risk materializing - party's claim for compensation from insurer rejected on grounds of failure to pay insurance premium in full - whether there was a failure of consideration in the contract of insurance - when the risk is deemed to begin to run in an insurance contract - whether contract of insurance can be complete before payment of premium - whether mere exaggeration of figures conclusive evidence of fraud and a ground for repudiating the insurance - contract - claim for special damages must be both pleaded and strictly proved

Criminal Law - charge of murder - all accused persons sentenced to death - appeal - where the assessors gave their opinion jointly other than individually as required by section 322 (1) of the Criminal Procedure code - jugde's misdiretcion in asking the assessors to give due weight to an alleged confession - EVIDENCE - APPELLATE COURT'S FINDING THAT A CONFESSION WAS INADMISSABLE DUE TO ITS HEARSAY NATURE - conviction set aside

Civil Procedure - Application for leave to file and serve notice and record of appeal out of time

Criminal Law - accussed sentenced to death for the offence of murder - appeal - where post mortem report is produced by a person other than the maker - when the court can admit a dying declaration - appeal dismissed

Civil Procedure - Rule 4 of the Court of appeal rules - Application for extension of time to file and serve notice and record of appeal out of time.

Land law - trust - dispute over family land - ancestral land - land registered in the name of one family land - whether land held in trust for other members.

Crime - murder - appellant convicted and sentenced to death - evidence that a gun recovered from the appellant three days after the killing had been the one used to kill the deceased - High Court holding that as the appellant had failed to explain his possession of the gun, he had to be the killer or one of the killers of the deceased - Appeal Court finding discrepancy in the evidence of the firearms examiner - Court ruling out the application of the doctrine of recent possession in the circumstances of the case - circumstantial evidence - test that such evidence must meet so as to form a basis for a conviction - conviction unsafe - appeal allowed.

Civil Procedure - application for extension of time to file appeal - delay of two months - applicant having been engaged in settlement negotiations - whether applicant to blame for the delay - whether delay inordinate.

Civil Procedure - application for extension of time for lodging an appeal - previous appeal having been struck out on a technicality - delay of 8 months - applicant's counsel stating that the delay was due to an illness and subsequent bereavement in his family - whether explanation adequate - whether the delay was inordinate.

Criminal law - drug trafficking - trafficking in cannabis sativa - bhang - appeal against conviction and sentence if imprisonment for five years - first appeal summarily dismissed - second appeal against sentence - whether the second appellate could deal with the issue of sentence  - Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Control Act section 4(a); Criminal Procedure Code section 361