October 3, 1962.

On the twenty-third of June, 1962, the Minister of Justice, purporting to act under section 440A of the Criminal Procedure Code as amended by section 4 of the Criminal Law (Special Provisions) Act, No. 1 of 1962, by filing document " A "1 in the Registry of this Court, informed the Court that he directs that the trial of twenty-four persons named therein in respect of three specified offences all falling under Chapter VI of the Penal Code be held before the Supreme Court at Bar by three Judges without a jury. Later that same day the Attorney-General exhibited to the Court an Information-document "B" 2-informing the Court that the same twenty-four persons had committed the offences which had been specified therein and seeking the issue by the Court of lawful process against the said persons. Thereafter, the Minister of Justice, again on the same day, purporting to act under section 9 of the Criminal Law (Special Provisions) Act, No. 1 of 1962, filed in the Court document " C " 3 nominating us as the three Judges who shall preside over the trial of the persons referred to above to be held in pursuance of the direction contained in document " A "