Court: Supreme Court

Year: 1970

Principle(s): There was no revolution when a council of ministers handed over power to a military government.

Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan

Year: 1958

Principle(s): A revolution abolishes the old legal order and creates a new Grundnorm, the source of validity for all laws in a legal system.

Court: Court

Year: 1970

Principle(s): Discussion of the legal effects of a coup d'état, grundnorm

Court: High Court of Uganda

Year: 1966

Principle(s): After a successful revolution, the old order ceases to exists and a new one is created.

Court: Supreme Court

Year: 1996–97

Principle(s): Legal effects of a revolution. Suspension of the 1979 Constitution. History of Ghana and the PNDC’s Rule