[RULING] Civil Procedure - extension of time - time for filing memorandum and record of appeal - an advocate who has complied with Order III 9A of the Civil Procedure Rules (which requires that a change of advocates after judgment has been passed shall not be effected without an order of the court upon an application by the advocate on record) of cannot be said to lack authority to file an application on behalf of the client seeking interlocutory relief in the Court of Appeal

Criminal law - omitting to take precautions against probable danger contrary to section 243(d) of the Penal Code - accused person charged with omitting to take precautions against probable danger from dogs in his possession - that the accused had let loos his dog so that it bit the complainant, causing him injury - ingredients of the offence - w whether the accused had committed criminal negligence - conviction and sentence of imprisonment for nine months - appeal - whether the accused was the custodian of the dogs or whether the dogs were under his control

Criminal law - charge of murder contrary to section 203, 204 of the Penal Code - accused person having stabbed his father to death after a quarrel - accused person pleading guilty to the reduced charge of manslaughter contrary to section 202 - sentence of imprisonment for ten years - appeal against sentence - whether the sentence was appropriate in the circumstances.

[RULING] Civil Practice and Procedure-originating summons-application to strike out-whether one could file suit for a declaration of title to land by an originating summons-Civil Procedure Rules, Order VI, rule 13(1),(c),and (d); Land Adjudication Act, Section 29; Registered Land Act, Section 21(4)

Criminal Law-robbery with violence-where the appellant alleges that he was a minor at the time of commission of the offence-where the appellant’s birth certificate was only procured purposely for the appeal-whether he should have been sentenced to death-Penal Code (cap.63), Section 296(2); Children Act, Section 186(f)

Criminal Law-murder-circumstantial evidence-where the only evidence linking the accused to the deceased is that they were drinking with him the previous night-condition for a conviction to be based on circumstantial evidence-Penal Code (cap.63), Section 203 as read with Section 204

[RULING] Civil Practice and Procedure-stay of execution-procedure-whether the application should be brought by chamber summons instead of notice of motion-conditions under which procedural lapses may defeat applications-Civil Procedure Rules, Order IXA, rule 11; Order L, rule 1

JURISDICTION – ouster of – appeal against a decision of a Provincial Land Disputes Appeals Committee – where the decision of the committee is final as per statute - whether court has jurisdiction to hear an appeal from its decision – Land Disputes Tribunals Act (Act No.18 of 1990) section 8 (8)

[RULING] Civil Practice and Procedure-chamber summons-where it has no date though it has been duly signed-whether this defect makes the summons incurably defective-whether a chamber summons is a pleading in its own right-Civil Procedure Rules , Order VI, rule 2(1) and (2), Civil Procedure Act (cap.21), Section 2

[Ruling] CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - preliminary objection objection to an injunctive application by the plaintiff to restrain the defendants from implementing the new resolutions passed in their society where the objector claims that the applicant did not have the leave of the court to exercise the right to sue the society effect of applicable principles - whether a member of a society requires leave of the court to institute a private suit against the society - Civil Practice and Procedure Order 1 rule 8