CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – OFFENCE OF FORGERY – Statutory meaning of forgery of a document or writing
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- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – OFFENCE OF FORGERY – Statutory meaning of forgery of a document or writing
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Offence of Forgery – Statutory meaning of forgery of a document or writing
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Offence of Stealing – What a charge of stealing must contain
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Charge(s) – Proper time within which a Magistrate should draft a charge against an accused person
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Offence of Conspiracy – Nature of the offence of conspiracy
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Offence of stealing – Whether a Defendant can be convicted for stealing proceeds of a forged cheque – Power of the court to substitute stealing for obtaining by false pretence
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Common Intention – The extent of criminal liability where common intention is established among participants in a crime
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Conviction For Lesser Offence – What constitutes a lesser offence
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Conviction For Lesser Offence – Whether a Court can convict an accused person of a lesser offence with which he was not charged
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Conviction – Meaning of summary conviction offence
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Criminal Liability or Responsibility – When an accused person would be absolved of criminal liability
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Criminal Trial or Proceedings – At what stage can a judge investigate the fitness or otherwise of an accused to make his defence
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Criminal Trial or Proceedings – Duty of the jury to give the accused benefit of doubt
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Criminal Trial or Proceedings – Extent of the power of a Jury to ask questions; function of a jury
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Criminal Trial or Proceedings – Whether failure to comply with Section 287(1)(a) of the Criminal Procedure Act will render the trial null
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Defence of Insanity – What makes insanity a defence
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Defence of Insanity – What the defence/accused person must prove to establish insanity
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Defence of Provocation – Essential elements/ingredients required to estabish the defence of provocation
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Defence of Provocation – Essential elements/ingredients required to estabish the defence of provocation
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Defence of Self-Defence – Whether the onus is on the prosecution to disprove an accused person’s plea of self defence
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Director of Public Prosecution – Status of a prosecution instituted by the Director of Public Prosecution
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Fitness of an Accused to Stand Trial – Need for a judge to make a specific finding on his investigation as to the fitness or otherwise of an accused to stand trial; procedure for determining fitness
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Offence of Forgery – Meaning of false document or writing
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Offence of Forgery – Statutory meaning of forgery of a document or writing
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Offence of Murder – Essential ingredients that must be proved by the prosecution to ground a conviction for murder
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Offence of Receiving Stolen Goods/Property – Statutory provision as regards the offence of receiving stolen goods
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Offence of Stealing – Whether a defence of bona fide claim of right in a charge of stealing has to be reasonable
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Offence of Stealing – Whether a person may be convicted where it was proved that he stole a part of the amount alleged to have been stolen without amendment of same
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Offence of Stealing – Whether converting money received on behalf of another person to personal use amounts to stealing
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Offence Of Stealing – Whether ownership is an essential ingredient of the offence of stealing
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Offence(s) – Statutory provision stating how offences under the Penal Code are dealt with
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Power of the Attorney -General – How powers of the Attorney General to institute criminal proceedings may be exercised
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Sentencing – Principles that guide an Appellate Court where there is an appeal against sentence passed by a lower Court
- CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Unlawful Possession of Firearms and Ammunition – Whether unlawful possession of weapon by one of two or more persons for a common object is the possession of all