Subject Matter Index

Browse cases by legal subject matter and principles

Distinction between a trial with the aid of assessors and trial by jury

Duty of a judge to discuss the evidence adduced, the ingredients of the offence charge, the standard burden of proof and the jurisprudence beyond the conviction

Effect of a mistake by a Judge in a criminal trial

Effect of the absence of fairness in a criminal trial

Effect of wrong inferences and misdirection in a criminal trial

Grounds under which a trial may be declared a nullity

How criminal trials are conducted in the Federal High Court

On how the court will deal with criminal trials involving legislators

On when a criminal trial commences

Position of the law where the evidence adduced in a criminal trial is consistent with both the guilt and innocence of the accused person

Procedure in criminal trials at the close of evidence

Purpose of a criminal trial

Stages/hurdles the prosecution seeks to get through

The emphasis in a criminal trial

The position of the law regarding trials on indictment

The principle that an accused person must be present at his trial

The procedure to be followed before the commencement of the preliminary hearing

The procedure under the Criminal Procedure Code, 1960 (Act 30) where a person is charged with an offence which is not being tried summarily

Ways of commencing criminal trials

What an accused person who applies for postponement of trial must show

What criminal trial entails

When issues will be said to be joined in a criminal trial

Whether a criminal trial is irregular where the trial court imposed a sentence more than what it could legitimately have imposed

Whether a criminal trial must take place in the presence of the accused person

Whether a delay in an armed robbery trial will invalidate the trial

Whether a judge must record the facts in a criminal trial

Whether a magistrate can try a person after an arrest by himself or at his direction

Whether an accused person can be tried at one trial for offences committed contemporaneously

Whether an orderly room trial is a criminal trial

Whether disclosures are required to be made by the prosecution in all criminal trials

Whether jurisdiction for a criminal trial is dependent on who conducted the investigations of the offence to be tried

Whether the absence of counsel assigned to the accused person by the State means that the accused person was not given adequate opportunity at the trial

Whether the commencement of a second trial is evidence that the conviction obtained at the first trial has in fact been set aside

Whether the fact that the conclusion reached by a trial or appellate court which is inconsistent with the defence of the accused can be construed as failure to consider the accused's case

Whether the function of a criminal trial is to ensure that an accused pays reparation to the victim of his crime at all cost

Whether the issue of proper parties arises in a criminal trial

Whether the mode of trial governs the infliction of punishment

Whether there is a time frame within which crimes must be prosecuted

Access More on judy.legal

Get related cases, follow principles for updates, and access AI-powered research.

Explore judy.legal