A vague ground of appeal is too general, not clear, precise or definite in what it purports to be aggrieved about. It cannot help in resolving…

The particulars need not always be separately set out but may be embodied or incorporated in the ground of appeal itself provided the ground is so…

A denial can be express or by necessary implication. Once facts are deposed to, in order to negate the general drift of the depositions in the…

No sane person having regard to constitutional provisions against discrimination would support denying a candidate eligibility because of slave descendant stigma. Such cruel utterance is abhorrent…

Where there is a dispute whether a person has been appointed in accordance with customary law to a minor chieftaincy, the prescribed authority may determine the…

A ruling house entitled to nominate candidates for a chieftaincy stool can only act through a majority of its members in a democratic society. It cannot…

Where a court misapprehends a party's case and decides the case as misrepresented, its decision will not be right and will be set aside. Misunderstanding of…

A court may decide to suo motu frame issues which do not depart from the contents or purport of issues framed by the parties but are…

The reference or non-reference to Decree No. 17 of 1984 in the instrument terminating the appointment of a public officer is not conclusive. What is decisive…

In deciding whether a public officer was dismissed on the authority of the appropriate authority, the court must go beyond the four walls of the letter…

Once it is established that the appropriate authority or its delegate acted under Decree No. 17 of 1984 or that the procedure conforms strictly with the…

A decision of a court is perverse when it ignores the facts or evidence before it and, when considered as a whole, amounts to a miscarriage…