The Judicature and Application of Laws (Criminal Appeals and Revisions in Proceedings Originating from Primary Courts) Notice, 2021

AI-assisted research summary: Section 3 is titled “Interpretation” and appears under the General Administrative and Procedural Provisions, Part II.

AI-assisted research summary: This section is titled “Petition of appeal and application for revision.”

AI-assisted research summary: This section concerns applications for leave to appeal made out of time.

AI-assisted research summary: This section is titled “Hearing procedure” and sits in Part III on the hearing of appeals.

AI-assisted research summary: Appeals and revision applications must be filed as a petition or chamber summons with specified contents and copies; in district court cases, a magistrate may allow oral grounds and must record them.

AI-assisted research summary: Where these Rules require filing a document in the appellate court, the document may be filed electronically.

AI-assisted research summary: District courts and the High Court must immediately date, number, and register appeal petitions, and district courts must endorse the filing date before sending certain appeals to the High Court.

AI-assisted research summary: If an appeal is filed to an appellate court, a notice of hearing of appeal and a copy of the petition of appeal must be served on the respondent or the respondent’s agent.

AI-assisted research summary: If the High Court Judge rejects an appeal summarily under section 28(1), the Judge must give reasons and have the rejection order served on the appellant or the appellant’s agent.

AI-assisted research summary: If the Registrar gives directions under section 26(a) about the time for the next step in an appeal, he must serve notice of those directions on the party or the party’s agent.

AI-assisted research summary: The appellate court must state the reasons when a petition for appeal was not or cannot be filed within 30 days after the decision or order.

AI-assisted research summary: An appellant may withdraw an appeal before judgment.

AI-assisted research summary: Section 15 is titled “Adjournments.”

AI-assisted research summary: During an appeal hearing, the appellate court must hear the appellant first, then the respondent, and allow the appellant a reply.

AI-assisted research summary: If adverse parties file separate appeals, the later appeal is treated as a cross-appeal, and the court must hear the matters in the stated order.

AI-assisted research summary: An appellant or agent generally may not be heard on grounds not stated in the petition of appeal unless the appellate court gives leave.

AI-assisted research summary: An appellate court may adjourn a hearing for good cause, and if the hearing is adjourned while the parties are absent, the court must notify the parties or their agents of the resumed date unless a person has written that they do not intend to appear.

AI-assisted research summary: This section is about re-admission of an appeal that was dismissed because someone did not appear.

AI-assisted research summary: This section concerns when an appeal heard without the respondent present may be re-heard.

AI-assisted research summary: Section heading for application for re-admission and re-hearing of appeal.

AI-assisted research summary: Parties must attend the appeal hearing in person or through their agents on the scheduled day, subject to rule 17(1) and (3) and unless the hearing is adjourned.

AI-assisted research summary: An appellant may file a written statement saying they will not appear at the hearing and include written arguments; in some cases the court must not dismiss for non-appearance and must consider those arguments.

AI-assisted research summary: An appellant or the appellant’s agent may ask the appellate court to re-admit an appeal dismissed for non-appearance, and the court may re-admit it if satisfied there was good cause for the failure to appear.

AI-assisted research summary: A respondent or the respondent’s agent may ask the appellate court to re-hear an appeal if the appeal was heard without the respondent and judgment was entered against him.

AI-assisted research summary: An application under rules 18 and 19 must explain why the applicant did not attend the hearing.

AI-assisted research summary: This section is titled “Mode of application.”

AI-assisted research summary: The appeals petition procedure also applies to applications for revision, with necessary changes.

AI-assisted research summary: An appellate court judgment must be written, in the court’s language, and include the points for determination, the decision, and the reasons. It must also be signed, dated, and pronounced in open court.

AI-assisted research summary: Most applications under these Rules must be in writing, except revision applications under rule 4. In a district court, the applicant may be allowed to state reasons orally, and the court must record them.

AI-assisted research summary: These Rules may be cited by the stated title.

AI-assisted research summary: These Rules apply to certain criminal appeals and revisions involving the district court and the High Court.

AI-assisted research summary: This section defines several terms used in the Rules, including “Act,” “agent,” “appellate court,” “petition of appeal,” and “Registrar.”