[Ruling] CRIMINAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE bail application for bail pending appeal where the applicant was sentenced on a charge of being in possession of prohibited drugs applicable principles whether the court can release the applicant on bail - Criminal Procedure Code sections 356 and 357

[Ruling] – INJUNCTION – temporary injunction – application for – applicants seeking orders to restrain the respondents from trespassing and cultivating on his land – where the applicant is the legal owner of the suit property – factors to be considered by court in such applications – whether the applicant established a prima facie case

[RULING] Civil Practice and Procedure-suits-locus standi-whether the widow of the deceased who has been given a grant of letters of administration has the locus standi to challenge titles to land

[RULING] Judicial Review - leave - application for leave to file for orders of mandamus - mandamus cannot issue against a party who was not a public officer - order that party be excluded from the main application

[RULING] Civil Practice and Procedure - summary judgment - application for summary judgment and for striking out of defence and counterclaim - applicant averring that she was the registered owner of the suit land by virtue of a first registration with indefeasible title - that the time for a claim for adverse possession would start to run after the date when she was registered as the owner and therefore the respondent's claim for adverse possession could not stand - whether a claim for adverse possession can be initiated by way of a plaint or counterclaim - Civil Procedure Rules Order 35 rule 1(1)(b); Order 6 rule 13(1)(a), (c); Order 36 rule 3D(1); Registered Land Act section 143(1)

[RULING] Civil Practice and Procedure-suits-transfer of suit-where the application has been brought under the wrong provisions of law-validity of the application

Criminal Law - Defilement of a girl under the age of 16 years - Section 145 (1) of the penal code - Proof of whether the accused committed the crime - Identification - Corroboration of evidence.

Criminal law - murder contrary to sections 203, 204 of the Penal Code - onus and standard of proof - ingredients of the offence of murder

Criminal Law-murder-burden of proof-where the prosecution could not secure the attendance of its material witness-validity of the prosecution case-Penal Code (cap.63), Section 203 as read with Section 204

Criminal Law-murder-intoxication-where the accused is said to have partaken of several local brews at a ceremony which he attended with his wife-where the accused while intoxicated beat his wife with a walking stick owing to which she died and he was still extremely intoxicated even at the time of arrest-whether the ingredients of murder have been proven-Penal Code (cap.63), Section 203 as read with Section 204