Boundary men should be treated like any other witness called by a party. A trial court is free either to accept or reject the evidence of…

Where there is a conflict in traditional evidence, the trial judge may discard the conflicting histories and apply the Kojo v. Bonsie principle by testing the…

In an appeal against a decision based on concurrent findings of fact of the two lower courts, the appellants have an uphill task to satisfy the…

Voluntary confessions are deemed to be relevant facts as against only the persons who make them. They are not ordinarily evidence against co-accused persons.

Where multiple alterations or forgeries occurred on different dates, months, and even years, each should have been the subject of a separate count. Combining them in…

There is no law that says people who owned property above their incomes are necessarily suspects who must have got their monies or properties from unauthorised…

In a charge of forgery, an essential ingredient to be proved is that the accused person forged the documents in question.

In a criminal trial, it is unsafe to base a conviction on speculative findings based not on what the appellant did but on what he ought…

A judgment delivered following a hearing conducted in the absence of a defendant who failed to file a statement of defence is a default judgment and…

A trial court retains the jurisdiction and power to set aside a default judgment it delivered even where a notice of appeal has been filed against…

It is settled law that the judgment in a representative action is binding on all the members of the class represented as they are deemed to…

Privies are of three classes: (1) privies in blood (ancestor and heir); (2) privies in law (testator and executor; intestate and administrator); (3) privies in estate…