FAMILY LAW – divorce – petition for – petitioner sought to dissolve her marriage to the objector on various grounds – factors the court considers in such applications – validity of order

MARITAL PROPERTY – division of – where the parties had not inventorised their matrimonial assets – applicable principles – whether the customary law can be the basis of such distribution

[RULING] Injunctions-temporary injunction-to restrain the defendant from constructing or continuing to construct new houses-factors the court will consider in determining whether or not to grant the orders

[RULING] Civil Practice and Procedure-interlocutory injunctions-applications of the principles governing the determination of applications for grant of interlocutory injunctions.

[RULING] Judicial Review-mandamus-whether an order of mandamus can issue against a government department or ministry to compel it to settle a decree obtained against it

Criminal law - being in possession of narcotic drugs contrary to section 3(1) as read with 2(a) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Control Act - accused found in possession of cannabis sativa (bhang) - appeal against conviction and sentence of 7 years imprisonment - EVIDENCE - documentary evidence - report of a government analyst produced under section 77(1) of the Evidence Act - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE - transfer of a case to a higher court for purposes of sentencing - Criminal Procedure Code section 221(3) - duty of a sentencing court which takes over a case to inquire into the circumstances of the case before passing sentence.

CRIMINAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE conviction - appeal against conviction on a charge of robbery with violence factors the court considers in such appeals whether the trial court reached the correct verdict Penal Code section 296(2)

RECENT POSSESSION doctrine of accused was found in possession of the complainants stolen items minutes after the robbery took place whether such evidence is enough to sustain a conviction against the accused person

Criminal law - robbery with violence - appeal against conviction and sentence of death - state conceding the appeal on the ground that the complainant had not been present during the robbery and had not been attacked or robbed - robbery having occurred at an institution - institution's administrator having been named as the complainant even though he had not been present during the robbery - whether such person was a proper complainant for the robbery charge - whether the guards and students of the institution who had been robbed and beaten would have been the proper complainants for that charge - whether the conviction was proper - Penal Code section 296(2)

Appeal-criminal law-grevious harm; assault causing actual bodily harm-prosecution-where the prosecutor was unqualified within the meaning of section 85 of the Criminal Procedure Code (cap. 75)-Penal Code (cap.63),sections 243 and 241-RETRIAL-whether it should be ordered where the appellant has served a substantial portion of the sentence

Appeal-criminal appeal-robbery contrary to section 296(1)of the Penal Code(cap.63)-where the court did not specify whether the seven year imprisonment sentence on each of the four counts is to be served concurrently or consecutively-whether the magistrate erred in reducing the charge from robbery with violence contrary to section 296(2) of the Penal Code(cap.63)for the reason that the accused did not use violence or injure his victims-Criminal Procedure Code,section 354(3)(ii)