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The extent of the power of the Attorney-General to cause any offence which is not one punishable by death or by imprisonment for life or which is not declared by any enactment to be a first-degree felony to be tried summarily

When summary trial would be adopted

Whether a first degree felony can be tried summarily

Whether an accused person being tried summarily will have a fair trial

Whether an accused person in a summary trial is entitled to full disclosure of documents in the possession of prosecution that would not even be tendered by the prosecution as exhibits before a trial court

Whether an accused person in a summary trial is entitled to pre-trial disclosures

Whether punishment by the High Court or the Circuit Court is limited in the same respect as a District Court in its trial of summary offences

Whether, in a summary trial, a defendant can be called upon to make a defence where no case is made out against him by the prosecution

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