Succession law - Letters of Administration - renewal and extension - beneficiaries' consent - section 337(4) Succession Act - final account - no costs.

Land law – registered title – indefeasibility and conclusive proof of ownership – security of occupancy – bona fide occupants with long possession – trespass – refusal of eviction, injunction, mesne profits and damages.

Succession and land law — identity and misnomer — disputed execution of documents — burden of proof under Evidence Act (ss.66,101) — enforceability of transactions over unadministered estate land — equitable/possessory interests, acquiescence and protection against successors — trespass and possession.

Criminal procedure — Reinstatement of dismissed appeals — Discretion under Section 37 Judicature Act — Sufficient cause (prison transfer and lack of legal aid) — Severability of falsehoods in affidavits — Assessment of arguable merits before reinstatement.

Criminal law – Theft – Entrustment of goods and dishonest conversion – Inference of intent from conduct – Material contradictions in prosecution evidence – First appellate re-evaluation of facts – Sentence within statutory limit and consecutive term discretionary.

Local Council courts — LCII original jurisdiction in customary land disputes — Stare decisis and binding Court of Appeal precedent — Parties cannot consent to oust jurisdiction or validate illegality — Quashing of Chief Magistrate’s orders restoring LCII and LCIII judgments.

Contracts Act – guarantee – guarantor liability accrues upon principal debtor’s default and after exhaustion of statutory modes of execution; Civil Procedure Act – modes of execution; Procedure – service of notice of motion; Registration of Persons Act – national ID cannot be used as collateral; Inherent powers of court – judge’s direction lawful.

Civil procedure — Summary suit — Application for leave to appear and defend under Order 36 r.5 — Appealability — Order 44 r.2 and s.76 Civil Procedure Act — Appeal incompetent without prior leave.

Civil procedure – Appeals – Memorandum of Appeal vs Notice of Appeal – Time limits under Section 79 and Order 43 CPR – Failure to obtain certified record not an excuse – Proper procedure to challenge dismissal: leave to appeal under Order 44.

Land law – trespass and possession – burden of proof for actual and exclusive possession; locus in quo – role in testing oral evidence; boundary evidence – anthills, sisal, trees; mediation proceedings – admissibility and estoppel.