A court has a legal duty to hear any court process, including a motion before it. The process may be downright stupid, unmeritorious, or even an…

Refusal of a court to hear a motion is a breach of the right to fair hearing guaranteed under the Constitution and an essence of the…

The practice has always been to give priority to hearing a motion seeking to regularise a process. That is the hallmark of a proper exercise of…

A party cannot appeal a decision that does not wrongfully deprive him of an entitlement or something he had a right to demand. Without such a…

No citizen should be put to the rigours of trial in a criminal proceeding unless available evidence points, prima facie, to his complicity in the commission…

Suspicion, however well placed, does not amount to prima facie evidence. More facts than are in the printed record will be needed to nail the appellant…

The relevant materials placed before the trial judge for the exercise of his discretion are the proofs of evidence and the written caution statements of the…

Even if deposition and statements disclose an offence, an accused person should not be put on trial if there is no link between him and that…

A state law creating a new local government area is not enough. The State must submit returns to the National Assembly, which must amend section 3(6)…

In detinue, a plaintiff can claim specific restitution or its value and damages for detention. But where the chattel is not profit-earning, it is extremely difficult…

Although uncontradicted evidence may ordinarily be accepted as true, the court is not bound to accept testimony that is willfully false, incredible, improbable, or falls sharply…

Special damages must be pleaded with distinct particularity and strictly proved. A court is not entitled to make an award based on conjecture or on a…