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The High Court is described as a superior court having full jurisdiction by virtue of section 2 (1) of the Judicature and Application of Laws Act, chapter 358 RE:2002. It has now developed forming a different structure to the former, where it has the ordinary court, and the two special divisions that is Commercial Division and Labour Division.
Criminal procedure is the adjudication process of the criminal law. While criminal procedure differs dramatically by jurisdiction, the process generally begins with a formal criminal charge with the person on trial either being free on bail or incarcerated, and results in the conviction or acquittal of the defendant. Criminal procedure can be ...
The Criminal Procedure Act, 1955 (No 56) The Criminal Procedure Amendment Act, 1958 (No 9) The Criminal Procedure Amendment Act, 1963 (No 92) The Criminal Procedure Amendment Act, 1965 (No 96) The Criminal Procedure Amendment Act, 1968 (No 9) The Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 (No 51) The Criminal Procedure Matters Amendment Act, 1978
The court invalidated section 49(2) of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977, which provided that the killing of certain fugitive suspects constituted justifiable homicide. Writing on behalf of a unanimous court, Justice Johann Kriegler held that the Bill of Rights required that force should be used in arrests only where such force is reasonable and ...
In Part 3 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2010, the expression "offence against the administration of justice" is defined by section 7 of that Act, as amended by section 27 of the Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Act 2018.
An information is a formal criminal charge which, depending upon the jurisdiction, either begins or continues a criminal proceeding in the courts. The information is one of the oldest common law pleadings (first appearing around the 13th century), and is nearly as old as the better-known indictment, with which it has always coexisted. [1] [2]
S v Zuma and Others was the first case decided by the Constitutional Court of South Africa after it was established in 1995. The case dealt with a provision of the Criminal Procedure Act which required the defence in criminal cases to prove that a confession made before a magistrate was coerced, rather than requiring the state to prove that it was not coerced.
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