Principal Registry - 2001 April

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April 2001
An ex parte stay of execution requires full disclosure and particulars of any meritorious defence; bare assertions will be vacated.
Civil procedure – Stay of execution – Order 47/1 – Ex parte applications – Duty of full and frank disclosure by counsel – Meritorious defence must be particularised – Summary judgment – Vacatur of stay.
27 April 2001
Appeal dismissed: joint-enterprise conviction for attempted robbery and three-year sentence affirmed.
Criminal law – Attempted robbery – Joint enterprise/acting in concert (s.21 Penal Code) – Credibility of complainant – Aggravated robbery where committed in company – Sentence proportionality.
23 April 2001
Court ordered estate administrators to render accounts and join the Administrator General, refusing immediate revocation despite mismanagement.
Administration of estates – duty of administrator to call in assets, pay creditors, account and protect minors’ interests – failure to account – revocation of letters of administration discretionary – alternative remedies: joinder of Administrator General and applicants, mandatory accounting and scheme for minors – costs against defaulting administrators.
6 April 2001