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App. No. CAV0002 of 2006) }{\i\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 "}{\i\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 a court of final appeal has power }{\i\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 in truly exceptional circumstances}{\i\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 to recall its orders even after they have been entered, in order to avoid irremediable injustice}{\i\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 "}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 (emphasis added).}{ \lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 We came to that conclusion after examining many judgments from the Privy Council, the House of Lords and the High Court of Australia.}{ \lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 What represents truly exceptional circumstances is of course not able to be defined but would include the discovery of matters proving the occurrence of a substantial miscarriage of justice and proof to the Court that it had previously acted under a misapprehension of the facts or the relevant law. \par \par [4]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 In setting such a high bar for an applicant to negotiate, the Court was and remains anxious to prevent abuse of process by hearing unwarranted and vexatious applications for review. \par \par [5]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 This applicant was found guilty in the High Court by a panel of assessors presided over by Mr. Justice Gates (as he then was) of murder of his mother and was sentenced to the mandatory term of life imprisonment.}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 }{ \lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 The defence raised at trial was one of accident, which was obviously rejected by the assessors. \par \par [6]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 An appeal against conviction was made to the Fiji Court of Appeal on the grounds that \endash \par \par {\listtext\pard\plain\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 \hich\af0\dbch\af0\loch\f0 (i)\tab}}\pard \ql \li720\ri0\nowidctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\ls1\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid12128361 { \lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 The learned trial Judge failed to direct the assessors on the offence of intoxication.}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid12128361 {\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 \par {\listtext\pard\plain\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 \hich\af0\dbch\af0\loch\f0 (ii)\tab}}\pard \ql \li720\ri0\nowidctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\ls1\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid12128361 { \lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 The learned trial Judge failed to direct the assessors on the defence of accident.}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid12128361 {\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 \par {\listtext\pard\plain\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 \hich\af0\dbch\af0\loch\f0 (iii)\tab}}\pard \ql \li720\ri0\nowidctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\ls1\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid12128361 { \lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 The learned trial judge failed to direct the assessors on a not guilty verdict. \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid12128361 {\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 \par [7]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 The Court of Appeal after addressing these grounds dismissed the appeal. \par \par [8]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 The applicant applied to this Court for leave to appeal that dismissal.}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 }{ \lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 In reviewing the grounds of the then application (relating solely to intoxication and intent) this Court refused to grant leave to appeal.}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 } {\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 We said then that the Court of Appeal had }{\i\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 "}{\i\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 correctly explained the applicable legal principles then examined in detail all the evidence relating to intoxication that had been adduced in the trial}{\i\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 "}{ \i\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 . \par \par }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 [9]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 In the present application for us to review that decision, the applicant relentlessly pursues his ground of intoxication and the lack of intent and the fact that that was not left to the assessors to consider. \par \par [10]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 Counsel appearing for the applicant herein, allows that the analysis of the law relating to intoxication was comprehensively and fairly dealt with by the Court of Appeal, but that that analysis led to a conclusion that did not please the applicant. \par \par [11]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 In conclusion, we can do no more than to remind future applicants under section 8(5) that since our judgment in }{ \i\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 Silatolu}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 (supra), followed in 2006 by }{\i\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 Eliki Mototabua v. The}{\b\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 }{\i\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 State }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 (CAV 00 6 of 2006), we will not accede to any application for review that raises previously determined issues. \par \par [12]}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 As we have said on many occasions, we do not sit to hear vexatious and abusive applications.}{ \lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 The }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 "}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 wrongs}{ \lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 "}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 complained of have already been addressed and this application is summarily dismissed as an abuse of process. \par }{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 \par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid12128361 {\b\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 Hon. Justice Saleem Marsoof \par }{\b\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 Judge of the Supreme Court}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid12128361 {\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 \par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid12128361 {\b\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 Hon. Justice Sathyaa Hettige \par }{\b\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 Judge of}{\b\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 }{\b\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 the Supreme Court}{ \lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid12128361 {\b\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 \par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid12128361 {\b\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 Hon. Justice Paul K. Madigan \par }{\b\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 Judge of}{\b\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361 }{\b\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 the Supreme Court \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid12128361 {\b\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 \par Solicitors: \par }{\b\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12128361\charrsid12128361 \par Anil J. Singh Lawyers, Nadi for the Petitioner/Applicant \par Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions \par }}