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Division and case type: CivilMiscellaneous Application
…Section 8(1) of the Act enjoins that High Court shall not in the exercise of its civil or criminal jurisdiction issue any order of prerogative writs of mandamus prohibition or certiorari.…
…It merely deleted the existing rule 53 according to which no application for an order of mandamus prohibition or certiorari may be made unless leave therefore has been granted.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…Magistrate erred in law in convicting the appellant when the plea was not unequivocal, the learned Resident Magistrate erred in law in convicting the appellant when there was no evidence on record that there was an order of prohibition…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…Prior to the early sixties, it was thought that what were then the prerogative orders of certiorari, prohibition and mandamus only lay against persons or bodies with judicial or quasi-judicial functions and did not apply…
…The types of reliefs available in judicial review proceedings are certiorari, prohibition, mandamus, claims for a declaration or injunction and for damages.…