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Constitutional safeguards where a person has been arrested or detained
Constitutional safeguards where a person has been arrested or detained upon reasonable suspicion of having committed a capital offence
Effect of an infringement of the right to personal liberty
How a person's personal liberty can be lawfully deprived
How the right to personal liberty should be construed
Nature of the right to personal liberty
Position of the law on how the right to personal liberty should be deprived
Right of every person to be protected from arbitrary arrest
The rule that a person who has successfully proved an infringement on his right to personal liberty is automatically entitled to damages and an apology
What constitutes a reasonable time within which to bring an arrested or detained person to court; whether the time can be enlarged by the court
What constitutes a violation of a person's fundamental right to personal liberty
When an arrest and detention will be considered lawful
When the right to personal liberty can be interfered with
When the right to personal liberty can be limited
Whether a conviction and sentence of the applicant while his interlocutory appeal was pending in the Supreme Court amounts to an infringement of his right to personal liberty
Whether a court of co-ordinate jurisdiction can review a decision where certification for the payment of compensation was not made to the Supreme Court
Whether a deprivation of means of livelihood amounts to a deprivation of liberty
Whether a detention which is slightly few hours over one day will be considered unreasonable
Whether an arrest and detention simpliciter consists of a breach of fundamental rights
Whether a person can apply to enforce his right to personal liberty where he was arrested or detained upon reasonable suspicion of having committed a capital offence
Whether a person can be deprived of his liberty
Whether a person who jumped bail is entitled to damages for unlawful detention
Whether submission to letters of invitation of the Police amounts to a restraint of personal liberty
Whether there is a breach of the right to personal liberty where it is shown that the police or any law enforcement agency has acted reasonably within its powers in the investigation of a criminal complaint
Whether the right to personal liberty is an absolute right
Whether unabated invitation by the police to a party amounts to a breach of the right to personal liberty
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