FOLI VIII AND OTHERS v. THE REPUBLIC [1968] GLR 768–773

Criminal law and procedure—Causing harm—Dead body, to—Cremation—Deceased allegedly guilty of customary offence during her lifetime—Penalty for commission of customary offence cremation of corpse in accordance with established custom—Statutory prohibition of cremating body without permission—Ignorance of statutory prohibition— Whether any offence committed—Births, Deaths and Burials Ordinance, Cap. 80 (1951 Rev.), s. 53 (1) —Criminal  Code, 1960 (Act 29), s. 285.