1.   I would also hold that he was not obliged to do so in discretionary life sentence cases.

2.   As with all death sentence cases, Cobb is entitled to an automatic appeal.

3.   Full-court hearings at the court, particularly in death sentence cases, are rare.

4.   The move is symbolic since all death sentence cases are automatically appealed in the country.

5.   To get around Pratt and Morgan, several governments are moving to amend their constitutions and reform the judicial system to speed up handling of death sentence cases.