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(1)to reaffirm, revise, or reverse judgments of courts of first instance which sentence persons to death or life imprisonment, when the cases have been sent up to it as prescribed in the Criminal Procedure Code;
(2)to give decisive rulings upon motions legally submitted to it to challenge orders of the courts of first instance;
(3)to give decisive rulings upon cases which it has the power to rule upon in accordance with other laws.
Section20.The Supreme Court of Justice has the power to try and adjudicate upon all cases in which judgments or orders of appellate courts are appealed according to the provisions of the laws dealing with final appeals.
Apart from this, the Supreme Court of Justice shall have the powers—
(1)to give decisive rulings upon cases of which the retrial has been applied for in accordance with the law thereon;
(2)to give decisive rulings upon cases which the Supreme Court of Justice has the power to rule upon in accordance with other laws.
As regards the cases which the Supreme Court of Justice has already tried and adjudicated upon, no party has the right to further file a petition against them with the Crown.
