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7 Edw. 7, c. 23, s. 9.
Criminal Procedure.
of a conviction involving sentence of death or corporal punishment the sentence shall not be executed until after the expiration of the time within which notice of appeal or of an application for leave to appeal may be given; and if notice is so given the appeal or application shall be heard and determined with as much expedition as practicable, and the sentence shall not be executed until after the determination of the appeal, or, in cases where an application for leave to appeal is finally refused, of the application.
(8) For the purposes of this Ordinance, the Full Court may, if it thinks it necessary or expedient in the interests of justice-
(a) order the production of any document, exhibit, or other thing connected with the proceedings the production of which appears to the Full Court necessary for the determination of the case; and
(b) order any witnesses who would have been compellable witnesses at the trial to attend and be examined before the Full Court, whether they were or were not called at the trial, or order the examination of any such witnesses to be conducted in manner provided by rules and orders made under section 9 before any judge of the court or before any officer of the court or any magistrate, justice of the peace or other person appointed by the Full Court for the purpose, and allow the admission of any depositions so taken as evidence before the Full Court; and
(c) receive the evidence, if tendered, of any witness (including the appellant) who is a competent but not compellable witness; and
(d) where any question arising on the appeal involves prolonged examination of documents or accounts, or any scientific or local investigation which cannot in the opinion of the Full Court conveniently be conducted before it, order the reference of the question in manner provided by such rules and orders as aforesaid for inquiry and report to a special commissioner appointed by the Full Court, and act upon the report of any such commissioner so far as it thinks fit to adopt it; and
(e) appoint any person with special expert knowledge to act as assessor in any case where it appears to
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