Criminal law — Armed robbery — doctrine of recent possession — unexplained possession of recently stolen property as presumptive evidence Criminal procedure — second appeal — Deference to concurrent findings of fact unless perverse, unreasonable or misapprehended — Misdirections…

Civil procedure — Appeals — Contradictory dates render decree defective and appeal incompetent — Order XX r 7(1) Civil Procedure Code, Cap. 33 R.E.2002

Criminal law — Armed robbery — Visual identification evidence — application of Waziri Amani factors (lighting, prior acquaintance, observation time) Criminal procedure — Cautioned statement — compliance with sections 50 and 51 CPA and timing of recording — Late recording may be…

Criminal law — Identification of dead body — Positive identification of decomposed body requires scientific corroboration — Extra-judicial confession — Repudiated confession and corroboration Criminal procedure — Hearsay — Requirement of corroboration before conviction

Labour Court jurisdiction; injunctions restraining strikes; effect of wrong citation of enabling provision; interlocutory versus final injunction; right to file notice of opposition/counter-affidavit; Court of Appeal revisional intervention suo motu.

Criminal law — Murder- Provocation — Objective test of an ordinary person of accused's community — Duty to direct assessors on prosecution's burden to disprove provocation — Summing up and misdirection

Civil procedure — Affidavits — validity of rejoinder and additional rejoinder — whether expunging them can dispose of proceedings (preliminary objection test) — Court of appeal rules — applies to natural persons, not corporate entities — substitution of parties — Corporate succe…

Criminal law — medical evidence — PF3 admissibility and section 240(3) CPA — s 240(3) CPA — sexual offences against a child — reliance on child complainant's uncorroborated evidence — s 127(7) Evidence Act

Criminal law — Unnatural offence (sodomy) against a child — admissibility of prior police statement and PF3 — corroboration of child testimony — right to silence and s.231(1) rights explanation — evidence of child witnesses — sketch plan — voir dire

Criminal procedure — Appeal procedure — Extension of time to file notice and petition of appeal — 60‑day rule and judicial exercise of discretion — Rule 8 Court of Appeal Rules — Evidence supporting delay — Need for particularisation and, where appropriate, corroboration by pris…

Civil procedure — Appeal competence — Omission or defective decree renders appeal incompetent — Supplementary record of appeal cannot introduce an essential basic document omitted from original record

Criminal law — caution statements — voluntariness — improper admission where statements not put to accused — prosecution’s burden — identification evidence — visual identification reliability

Criminal law — Expert evidence — Postmortem and psychiatric testimony — Need to call medical witnesses to clarify cause/timing of death and mental state — Insanity defence — Committal for psychiatric examination under s.220 CPA — Requirement to admit psychiatric report as eviden…

Appellate practice — Appellate review — Misdirection by judge regarding facts not supported by record may vitiate decision — Quashing convictions Criminal law — identification evidence — visual identification by torchlight — Application of Waziri Amani principles Criminal proced…

Administrative law — Judicial review — certiorari — supervisory jurisdiction, grounds for quashing decisions (lack/excess of jurisdiction, illegality, breach of natural justice, unreasonableness, error of law on face of record) Labour law — termination of employment — substantiv…

Civil procedure — Court of Appeal — extension of time

Criminal law — appellate review in second appeals under s.5(7) AJA — interference with concurrent findings of fact only for misdirection or insufficient evidence — Armed robbery — visual identification — requirements to exclude mistaken identity (Waziri Amani test)

Civil procedure — amendment of record of appeal — Defective drawn order signed by Registrar

Appellate practice — Appellate jurisdiction — Revision— Application filed before appeal hearing is incompetent— Exercisable only in the course of hearing or determination of an appeal— Party cannot validly invoke s.4(2) by advance notice of motion— Power is primarily for the Cou…

Criminal law — accomplice evidence — alleged admissions to witnesses — appellate misdirection — corroboration required — inadequate identification of stolen property — Armed robbery

Civil procedure — Appellate Jurisdiction Act s.4(3) — Court's suo motu revisional powers — Appellate Jurisdiction Act s.5(2)(d) — interlocutory decisions not revisable unless finally determine suit — eviction — eviction not pleaded as relief and issued before pleadings and issue…

Criminal law — Criminal appeal Criminal procedure — Medical evidence — duty to inform accused of right to have examining doctor summoned for cross-examination — non-production undermines authenticity Evidence — Child witness — voir dire