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Appeals from inferior courts

Cap. 90, s. 25 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) Where the Supreme Court makes an order on an appeal from an inferior court in a criminal cause or matter any party to such appeal may appeal to the Court from the order of the (a) upon any ground which involves a question of law alone; or (b) where the appeal to the Supreme Court is against an order which disqualified the appellant from the exercise of his profession or calling, from the holding of public office, from membership of a public body or from voting at an election of representatives to any such body, upon any ground of appeal which involves a question of fact alone or a question 22 of mixed law and fact, or upon any other ground which appears to the Supreme Court or the Court to be a sufficient ground of appeal. (2) Upon the determination of an appeal under this section, the Court may affirm or set aside the order of the Supreme Court and where any such order is set aside the Court may make any order which ought to have been made at the trial, or make such other order as justice requires. CAP. 156.
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