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…He has appealed against the sentence only and he says this is because the unlawful killing was accidental as it was due to the quantity of the alcohol he had consumed; he pleaded guilty; the offence arose out of a family…

…In so far as the sentence passed on the appellant did not include an order for hard labour as required by Section 278 of the Penal Code it is unlawful.…

…The appellant’s story was that although he was at the scene, they in fact arrested a person in unlawful possession of gold. They had a tip off from a small boy about this.…

…His conclusion therefore was that this assault was unlawful and relying on section 206(b) of the Penal Code he held that the said assault was carried out by the appellant with malice aforethought, the result of which was…

…The possibility therefore that the appellant killed the deceased by a sustained unlawful assault but without the intent necessary to constitute legal malice requisite to the proof of the oence of murder contrary to section…

…debentures; e) they had waived those rights; f) they were in breach of their contracts and acting mala fides in making their demands; g) their demands were null and void for uncertainty so their appointment of the receivers was unlawful…

…It is unlawful to do otherwise, of course, and unwise, too, because failure to comply with the judges’ Rules provides criminals with defences. Boyd Makintosh (ibid).…

…I might mention at this stage that it frequently happens that an advocate, or a solicitor in England, receives instructions from and acts for both parties to a lase transaction, and there is nothing unlawful in it so long…