It is trite law that mere absence of any evidence of motive for a crime is not a sufficient ground to infer mania or insanity.

Evidence that the behaviour of the appellant was abnormal is of no moment because abnormal behaviour is not evidence of insanity.

For an appellant to canvass before the Supreme Court an issue that was raised at the trial court but abandoned in the Court of Appeal, it…

Where an appellant files both an appeal to the Supreme Court and a motion to relist a dismissed appeal in the Court of Appeal, both processes…

Abuse of judicial process includes instituting a multiplicity of actions on the same subject matter against the same opponent, instituting different actions simultaneously in different courts,…

A litigant has no right to pursue pari passu two processes which will have the same effect in two courts at the same time. Litigation is…

The Supreme Court has inherent jurisdiction to prevent abuse of process by frivolous or vexatious proceedings, either in this court or in any other court, which…

When a court is denied jurisdiction at the time a cause of action arose, it cannot assume jurisdiction when action is instituted later even if jurisdiction…

The relevant law for determining jurisdiction of a court is the law in force at the time the action was instituted and heard, not the law…

The Court of Appeal, not being the final court, had a duty to decide the merit of the case upon the issues canvassed before it, notwithstanding…

Before a court comes to a decision as to which evidence it believes, it should put the totality of acceptable testimony on an imaginary scale, putting…

The law is well settled that an appeal to the Supreme Court must relate to the decision of the Court of Appeal and not that of…