Employment law - voluntary early retirement - retired employee seeking a declaration that his retirement benefits should have been assessed on the basis of his current and not his previous salary - employee having voluntarily agreed to the voluntary early retirement scheme based on his previous salary - appeal against the decision of the High Court finding in favour of the employer - whether the trial court's decision was proper - whether there was a basis on which the retirement scheme could be set aside

[Ruling] Civil Practice and Procedure - extension of time - application for extension of the time for filing and serving a notice and record of appeal - reference to the full court of a decision of a single judge - delay of 42 days - single judge having found that the delay was inordinate and declining to extend time - whether the fact that the applicant had an arguable appeal entitled him to an extension of time - whether the single judge had properly exercised his jurisdiction - Court of Appeal Rules rule 4

Criminal law - murder - appeal against conviction and sentence of death - accused person having struck the deceased on the neck with a panga - whether malice aforethought had been established on the part of the accused/appellant - meaning of malice aforethought - whether as a reasonable man the appellant knew or ought to have known that his action would kill or cause grevious harm to the deceased - drunkenness - whether the defence of intoxication was available to the appellant -Penal Code sections 203, 204, 206

[Ruling] Civil Practice and Procedure - extension of time - application for extension of time for filing a record of appeal - applicant attributing the delay in filing the appeal to his advocates - discretion of the Court of Appeal to extend time - nature of that discretion and the principles upon which it will be exercised - Court of Appeal Rules rule 4

[Ruling] Civil Practice and Procedure - application for a variation of a court order - Court of Appeal having made an order stopping an appeal from being listed for hearing until the official receiver gave a written undertaking to pay its costs - applicant seeking a variation of that order so that the security for costs or undertaking be paid by a relative of the appellant on his behalf - grounds: that the official receiver had not give the undertaking and a relative of the bankrupt (appellant) was willing to give the security in order to enable the appeal to succeed - whether the Court may allow such an application - whether the relative to the appellant was a stranger to the proceedings - Court of Appeal Rules rule 56(2) - Bankruptcy Act section 9(1)

[Ruling] Civil Practice and Procedure - extension of time - application for extension of time to file and serve record of appeal - principles the Court will apply in exercising its discretion to extend time - matters which the Court will consider - delay of 90 days - delay attributed to the mistake of an advocate - whether the delay was inordinate - whether there was merit in the intended appeal - Court of Appeal Rules rule 4

[Ruling] Civil Practice and Procedure - extension of time - application for extension of time for filing and serving a notice and record of appeal - applicant attributing the delay in filing his appeal to the mistake of his advocate - discretion of a single judge in considering such an application - matters which the judge will consider in exercising his discretion - Court of Appeal Rules rule 4

Criminal law - murder - accused person having killed his wife in a fight - accused person offering a plea of guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter - intoxication - drunkenness - accused's advocate stating in mitigation that the accused had been drunk at the time of the offence - accused sentenced to imprisonment for 8 years - appeal - whether the sentence was harsh and excessive - Penal Code sections 203, 204

Criminal law - robbery with violence - Evidence - identification evidence - evaluation of the evidence by a trial court - trial court relying on the identification evidence to convict the accused - appeal - second appeal - whether the conviction was proper - Penal Code section 296(2)