When a plaintiff has been found not to have standing to sue, the question whether other issues were properly decided does not arise because the trial…

It is a well established principle of law that where parties have reduced their agreement into a written document, subject to some exceptions, oral evidence will…

The expression 'fundamental breach' is used to denote a performance totally different from that which the contract contemplated or a breach of contract more serious than…

Concurrent findings of fact should not be disturbed by this court unless there are cogent and compelling reasons. Findings that are very defective and perverse, and…

A party is not permitted on appeal to change the case he had made at the trial court, since an appeal is simply the continuation of…

A limitation clause which limits liability to a ridiculous amount is as good as a clause exempting from liability. In my view, a limitation clause is…

The consequence of an exemption clause on a fundamental breach is a matter of contract interpretation: whether the clause was intended to exempt from fundamental breach.…

There is a concurrent finding of the two lower courts in that respect and there is nothing to show that the findings are perverse. It is…

The rights which the plaintiff sought to assert belonged to the villages of Ndegbelu and Amuzi. The trial court overlooked that the plaintiff did not bring…

No substantial point of law not taken in the court below will be allowed to be raised for the first time before the Supreme Court except…

On a claim based on a statutory certificate of occupancy which confers exclusive possession, the respondent need do no more than produce and tender the statutory…

The right to sue in chieftaincy matters may arise in two ways: (i) the plaintiff may assert the family's hereditary interest through representatives, clearly pleading it…