Despatches: proceedings before the Court of Appeal. This volume contains reports...

Despatches: proceedings before the Court of Appeal. This volume contains reports of appeals heard before the Assistant Court of Appeal together with abstracts of cases heard and decided by local magistrates. The 'abstracts' are entered on printed forms giving:

• names of parishes;
• names of justices;
• number of individual cases [male or female];
• number of individuals punished [male or female];
• general character of offences;
• general character of punishments awarded;
• number of appellants from the foregoing decisions who have appeared before the Assistant Court [male or female];
• number of appellants in cases wherein the original decision of local justices has been confirmed or reversed [male or female];
• remarks [giving brief details of each appeal]

Accompanying quarterly reports of proceedings heard and determined by the judges of the Assistant Court of Appeal describe each appeal, giving the names of the appellant and respondent, the names of the judges hearing the appeal, copies of depositions [often verbatim] taken by local magistrates, accounts of the examination of both parties and of any witnesses, and the decision of the court.

Papers were transmitted to the Colonial Office by Governor E M J McGregor or Acting Governor H C Darling but no additional information or comments are given by those officials

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