JUSTUS OLAYEMI  OSOSAMI VRS THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE A public holiday is, like a Sunday, a dies non juridicus, and the Magistrate should not have sat on a public holiday, but he did so at the request, and in the interests of the defence; there was neither prejudice to the defence nor any substantial miscarriage of justice, and the Court would apply the proviso to section 11 of the \Vest African Court of Appeal Ordinance and dismiss the appeal.