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Conditions for the grant of stay of proceedings of execution

Distinction between stay of proceedings granted under the inherent powers of the court and one granted under the Stool Lands Boundaries Settlement Ordinance

Duty of the appellant seeking to upturn an order of stay of proceedings

Effect of failure to attach the notice of appeal to an application for stay of proceedings

Factors for the grant of stay of proceedings

Grant of stay of proceedings as a matter of discretion

How the court should exercise its discretion on whether or not to grant a stay of proceedings

How the discretion to grant stay of proceedings should be exercised in criminal proceedings

How the discretion to order stay of proceedings should be exercised

Need for a party seeking a stay of proceedings in respect of steps taken to execute a judgment to demonstrate exceptional circumstances

Need for an applicant for stay of proceedings to demonstrate the existence of exceptional circumstances

Need for the court to ensue that there are special circumstances warranting a stay

Situations which will warrant a stay of criminal proceedings

The main condition for the grant of stay of proceedings

The nature of stay of proceedings

The rule that an application for stay of proceedings must be anchored on an appeal challenging the judgment/ruling

The threshold test for granting a stay of proceedings

What constitutes exceptional circumstances for the grant of stay of proceedings

What stay of proceedings connotes

What the court considers in the exercise of its discretion in granting stay of proceedings

When an applicant will file a motion for stay of proceedings

When stay of proceedings will be granted

When the appellate court will intervene in the exercise of the discretion to grant stay of proceedings

Whether a party whose application for stay of proceedings was refused by the High court is entitled to repeat his application in the Court of Appeal before the appeal has been entered

Whether a stay of proceedings can be granted in respect of a non-executable order

Whether a submission that an appeal has a high chance of success constitutes exceptional circumstances for the grant of stay of proceedings

Whether an application for stay of proceedings automatically operates to stay proceedings

Whether an application for stay of proceedings must be filed in the lower court as a condition for invoking the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal

Whether an application for stay of proceedings will be granted to enable the applicant pursue his appeal in the Court of Appeal

Whether an order of stay of proceedings can be removed by the court which granted it

Whether an order of stay of proceedings can be revoked by an executive instrument

Whether filing an appeal operates as a stay of proceedings

Whether proceedings will be stayed in the second suit where a plaintiff institutes concurrent suits against the same person in respect of the same subject-matter

Whether stay of proceedings will be granted where the applicant has taken fresh step after knowledge of the irregularity

Whether the court can stay proceedings in respect of steps taken to enforce a judgment

Whether the Court of Appeal can grant an application for stay of proceedings in the High Court

Whether the court will stay proceedings in the hope that the appeal might succeed

Whether the fact of the pendency of an interlocutory appeal compels the grant of stay of proceedings

Whether the fact that the applicant has appealed against a ruling or order of the court in an interlocutory matter during a civil trial entitled him to a stay of proceedings

Whether the High Court has jurisdiction to grant stay of proceedings pending the determination of an interlocutory appeal

Whether the judge can stay proceedings because he thinks a conviction is unlikely

Whether the mere expectation that the interlocutory appeal will succeed is a ground for the grant of stay of proceedings

Whether the Supreme Court has the power to grant a stay of proceedings under the judgment or decision appealed against

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