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Criteria that must be complied with by a judgment, ruling or opinion of a judicial committee

Effect of a judicial committee appointed in contravention of section 29(2) of the Chieftaincy Act, 2008 (Act 759)

Position of the law on the procedural rules governing proceedings before Judicial Committees

What happens where there are procedural gaps or lacuna in the law, before any proceedings before the Judicial Committees of House of Chiefs

Whether a judicial committee has power to destool a chief or the queenmother

Whether a Judicial Committee of a House of Chiefs can entertain any claim or relief related to the recovery or delivery of any alleged stool property as a stand alone relief or cause of action

Whether a “chieftaincy tribunal” as is spelled out in the Constitution, 1979, art. 180 (2) (d) is a judicial committee and composition and functions of a “judicial committee” as spelled out in Act 370 are consistent with the provisions of the Constitution

Whether legal objections before Judicial Committees must be raised in accordance with the High Court Rules

Whether the issuance of the search reports by the Registrar of the Central Regional House of Chiefs’ Judicial Committee on the status of a case pending before the Committee is a judicial act

Whether the members of a judicial committee can be appointed by the President or Registrar of a Traditional Council alone

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