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The Court of Appeal dismissed the conviction appeal and upheld the second-trial verdict, but substituted the sentence with 19 years and 3 months' imprisonment.
The Court of Appeal quashed Manan Abdul’s conviction for a fingerprint-direction misdirection, rejected good-character and interpreter complaints, and ordered a retrial.
The Court of Appeal granted leave to appeal against a drug-trafficking conviction, finding the challenge to the trial judge’s summing-up remarks reasonably arguable.
The Court of Final Appeal refused leave to appeal, holding that failure to hear an intending candidate before invalidating nomination was a material irregularity.
The Court of Appeal granted leave to appeal against conviction in a trial-in-absentia case and directed the sentence leave application to be heard with the conviction appeal.
The High Court allowed a magistracy appeal, holding the conviction unsafe because the magistrate relied on unclear alternative factual bases for guilt.
Election petition over a District Council result was dismissed after the court found no proven false registration addresses or qualifying irregularity.
Court of Appeal held that pre-candidacy promotional videos did not breach election expense limits on the facts; the appeal was dismissed by majority.
The High Court held that section 8 was not the proper route to challenge a Family Court guardianship order said to be obtained ex parte without disclosure.
Harris J dismissed a challenge to approval of a voluntary arrangement, holding the disclosure flaws were not materially shown to have changed the vote outcome.
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