Mohamed Faizer Mohamed Liyakath et al. v. The Hon. Attorney General – CA CASE NO:- 230-235/2013-2013

In the case between Mohamed Faizer Mohamed Liyakath and others (accused-appellants) and The Hon. Attorney General (respondent), the court addressed whether the accused-appellants were improperly denied their statutory right to elect trial by jury, a procedural requirement mandated by Section 195(e)(e) of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act and clarified in Attorney General v. Aponso. The holding established that recorded proceedings demonstrated the accused, represented by counsel, were offered the jury option and voluntarily opted for a non-jury trial. The court reaffirmed the principle that official court records are conclusive evidence of proceedings and their procedural regularity, and that failure to offer the jury option amounts to illegality, not mere irregularity. The objection rega