Argument on an interlocutory appeal not based on issues formulated from grounds of appeal is incompetent and must be discountenanced. Appellants who fail or neglect to…

Arguments on appeal should be based on issues formulated and not on grounds of appeal. Since the introduction of brief writing, appellate courts have held that…

Fair hearing principles can only apply where a party has a right to be heard on a court process. If a party has no right to…

Parties are bound by their pleadings, and that should have guided the appellant in the pursuit of his case. Having not pleaded such facts to enable…

The persons who may be proposed as candidates by a ruling house entitled to fill the vacancy shall be: (a) members of the ruling house of…

As issues were formulated from grounds of appeal which were struck out, the Court of Appeal was right in striking out the issues. One cannot add…

Once a ground of appeal is succinctly couched, specifically described, and avoids vagueness, repetition, narration, or argument, so that the adverse party knows the exact complaint,…

A ground of appeal alleging error in law and misdirection in fact is not thereby incompetent if it otherwise complies with rules requiring that a ground…

The Supreme Court will not interfere with concurrent findings of the lower courts unless they are not justified by the evidence and have thereby occasioned a…

The phrase "subject to further changes in respect of the rent by the Federal Government of Nigeria" does not mean that the sub-lessor must seek and…

A policy statement or guideline whose non-implementation does not entitle a party to legal redress does not create a contractual relationship. Only parties to a contract…

While parties are bound by their pleading, not all facts germane to a case must be pleaded. Where facts are pleaded which raise a reasonable inference…