23 Oct 2025
Because the statutory USM requires an appeal to the Torture Claims Appeal Board and no such appeal was ever lodged, there is no Board decision for the Court to review; accordingly the applicant has no prospect of success and leave to apply for judicial review is refused.
29 May 1996
Where counsel's advice before a guilty plea was ambiguous or erroneous as to the defendant's appellate rights and the legal status of the offence, the plea may be set aside in the interests of justice and a new trial ordered or the matter remitted for a valid hearing; applying that principle the appeal was allowed for D11 and D12 and a new trial ordered.
18 Sept 1984
Because the bank delayed in making applications under Order 49B such that the judgment debtors would be deprived of an effective right of appeal, the refusal of the stay was wrong; the appeal was allowed and a stay granted to preserve the appellants' right to contest the propriety of the orders under Order 49B.