(1) The grounds of appeal to the Supreme Court shall include:
(a) want of jurisdiction;
(b) misrepresentation of the facts of the case or of the documents of the proceedings;
(c) absence, or contradictions or insufficiency of reasons;
(d) failure to reply to the submissions of the parties or of the Legal Department;
(e) procedural irregularity, in particular: where, subject to the provisions of section 470 (1), the
decision appealed against was not delivered by the number of judges prescribed by law or
was delivered by judges who had not participated in the entire hearing; where the Legal
Department was not given the right to be heard or it was not represented at the hearing;
where subject to the exceptions provided for by law, the rule pertaining to public hearing
was not observed;
(f) ultra vires;
(g) violation of the law;
(h) violation of a general principle of law;
(i) failure to fol1ow precedents of a joint section of the Bench of the Supreme Court or a joint
session of the Benches of the Supreme Court.
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(2) The Supreme Court may of its own motion raise any of the grounds of appeal referred to in
sub-section (1) above.
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