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Power of the Court generally
Cap. 91, s. 120 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) The Court may67
(a) affirm, modify, amend or reverse, either in whole or in part, the decision made by the inferior court with reference to the cause, or may render any decision which the inferior court ought to have made;
(b) remit the cause with the opinion of the Court thereon to the inferior court for hearing,
judgment or execution, or may originate its own decision thereon and enforce the same according to the practice of the Court; or
(c) make any other order for disposal of the cause which justice requires,
Provided that the Court may, if of opinion that a different sentence should have been passed, quash the sentence passed by the inferior court and pass such other sentence warranted by law,
whether more or less severe, in substitution therefor as the Court thinks should have been passed.
(2) Every order made by the Court on appeal shall have the same effect, and may be enforced in the same manner, as if it were a decision of the inferior court made in the first instance.
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