Criminal Practice and Procedure - rights of an accused person - right to be brought to court within a reasonable time after arrest - appellant raising an allegation of the violation of his constitutional right in the Court of Appeal in an appeal against his conviction for murder - issue not raised in the trial at the High Court even though the appellant was represented - distinction between an information before a charge and a charge sheet before a trial magistrate - whether a judge may be able to tell the date of arrest by looking at the information - duty of an advocate to raise relevant issues for the defence of the client - whether where the advocate fails to raise such issues the client is taken to have waived them and cannot raise them for the first time in the Court of Appeal

Evidence - child - evidence of a child of tender years - how a court should handle such evidence - corroboration - Evidence Act section 124

Civil Practice and Procedure - parties to suits - deceased party - suit having been filed against a deceased person and interlocutory judgment and degree issued in the party's favour - application to set aside interlocutory judgment dismissed - appeal - whether the suit was competent.

Civil Practice and Procedure - interlocutory judgment - judgment in default of appearance - principles that a court is to consider and apply in deciding whether or not to set aside default judgment - duty of the court to consider the draft defence on record - where the claim made in the plaint was not of a liquidated nature - whether it was proper to enter judgment in such a case -

Defamation - libel - general damages for defamation - assessment of damages - power of an appellate court to interfere with an award of damages - principles which the court will apply - matters which a court should take into account in assessing damages - newspaper report alleging the commission of a criminal offence by the claimant, a prominent businessman - defendant pleading justification but failing to establish the defence - appeal against award of Kshs. 500,000 - whether the trial court had applied the wrong principles in assessing damages - whether the award should be enhanced.

Civil Practice and Procedure - review - power of a court to review its own decisions - application based on an alleged discovery new and important facts - duty of the applicant to clearly state the grounds of the application - nature of the new facts discovered which may form the basis of such an application - Civil Procedure Rules Order XLIV order 44

Evidence - expert evidence - nature of expert evidence and how a trial court is to treat such evidence.