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…rights.…

…These are, whether the application is competently before us, and secondly, whether there was non-compliance with the law, leading to violation of the applicant’s fundamental rights.…

…Salmon, J.A. in his dissenting judgment in Cozens, expressed the view that only very clear words which did not exist in the English Limitation Act 1963, could take away a person’s fundamental rights, in the following way:…

…rights which are ordinarily accorded by the law and indeed by natural justice.”.…

…What gives us cause for concern, however, is the length to which the judges were prepared to go to justify the illegal detention of the appellant in custody by the police for 17 days in flagrant violation of his fundamental…

…rights.…

…The plaintiff’s incarceration for a period of one year in prison after the 26th May 1982 was a breach of his fundamental rights as enshrined in the Constitution and the defendants are liable to him and cannot hide under the…

…:- “We apply the above doctrine fully and would therefore think that the failure to give all the accused in this case an opportunity to cross-examine the 4th co-accused was no less prejudicial and was indeed a denial of fundamental…

…rights of all the appellants ...........”…