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Filing of notice of grounds of appeal

Cap. 90, s. 28 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) On every appeal or application for leave to appeal to the Court notice of the grounds of appeal shall be filed within twenty-one days after receipt by the intending appellant from the Registrar, (a) in the case of an appeal against conviction by the Supreme Court on indictment or information, of a copy of the record which shall include a copy of the judge’s summing up; (b) in the case of an appeal in respect of the report of a judge under Immigration Act, of a copy of the judge’s notes of evidence; CAP. 156. (c) in all other cases, of a copy of the order against which he Court of Appeal desires to appeal and the judgment on which it was based and the judge’s notes of evidence, if any. (2) Except in the case of a conviction involving sentence of death, the time within which notice of appeal or notice of an application for leave to appeal may be given or filed may be extended at any time by leave of the Supreme Court, or if such extension is refused, by leave of the Court.
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