CRIMINAL LAW – Robbery with violence – where the accused persons were charged and convicted on various counts of the offence – Penal Code (Cap 63) section 296(2)

EVIDENCE – witness – identification – circumstances under which the identification was done – whether it was sufficient to sustain a conviction

EVIDENCE – where the accused person led the police to where they had hidden the stolen items – whether this was sufficient evidence to convict

DEFENCE – failure to consider - proof of – effect of - whether court conducted itself rightfully

Robbery with violence - causing grevious bodily harm - accused person convicted and sentenced to death on the first count and to two years imprisonment on the second - sentence of imprisonmetn suspended - appeal - EVIDENCE - identification evidence - test which such evidence should satisfy in order for it to form a basis for a conviction - Penal Code sections 234, 269(2)

civil procedure - application to strike oput suit for being an abuse of the court process

Criminal law - robbery with violence contrary to section 296(2) of the Penal Code - accused persons convicted on two counts of the offence and sentenced to death - appeal - duty of a first appellate court to consider the evidence on record - EVIDENCE - doctrine of recent possession - where a person is found in recent possession of stolen property - duty of such a person to explain how he had come to be in possession the property

[RULING] Probate and Administration - application for revocation of grant of letters of administration and for a fresh grant to be made to the applicant - procedure for making such application - Rule 44 of Probate & Administration Rules is mandatory; application by Chamber Summons instead of Summons for Revocation or Annulment of Grant is incompetent.

Criminal Law,Procedure and Evidence - Appeal form conviction with charge of murder - Caution to suspect prior to taking statement - Whether caution must be phrased in voluntary terms or as an order - that caution must be issued in a language that the suspect understands - Whether improperly admitted documentary evidence can be excluded during appeal on basis that admission of the same during trial was due to a fault of counsel which ought not be visited on the appellant - that counsel is presumed to be acting on the appellant's instructions - that retraction of statement must be doen outright and not by implication in the course of cross examination

[RULING] Civil Procedure - Application under section 78 (1)(d) of Civil Procedure Act to adduce fresh additional evidence - principles to be observed

[Ruling] - Mortgage - statutory power of sale - statutory notice Section 69A of the Transfer of Property Act -whether powers under that section disjunctive or conjuctive - whether dispute as to accounts ground for granting injunction - INTEREST - MORTGAGEE'S DUTY TO SHOW IT HAD A RIGHT VARY OR INCREASE RATE OF INTEREST

[Ruling] – INJUNCTION – temporary injunction – application for – applicant sought orders to restrain the respondent from running the hotel, declaring the employees redundant and representing the employees as their trade union – applicable principles in granting injunctions – whether the applicants established a prima facie case

TRADE UNIONS – where two trade unions claimed to represent the employees in a hotel – factors courts consider in such applications - whether there was a recognition agreement between the employers and the trade unions