A necessary party is someone whose presence is necessary as a party because the question in the action cannot be effectually and completely settled unless he…

A trial judge should not import into his judgment issues not pleaded. A judge must keep strictly to the pleadings and issues joined and must not…

An objection not made an issue before the court below cannot be raised in the Supreme Court without leave. The appellant must seek and obtain leave…

An appellate court will set aside a decision where evidence was wrongfully excluded if it cannot reasonably hold that the decision would have been the same…

A family member has the right to demand partition of family land, but this will only be granted if it is shown that there are disputes…

Although the land does not belong to the allottee, he has ownership of whatever he superimposes on the land by his own personal efforts.

Where a concurrent finding of fact does not flow logically from other findings made by the trial judge, it is perverse, and the Supreme Court will…

It is settled law that a servant will rarely be forced on a master. The proper remedy for wrongful dismissal is damages.

What determines the wrongfulness or otherwise of a dismissal is the contract of service, not any notion of fair hearing. The employer is not obliged to…

An employee's conduct that constitutes gross misconduct, such as taking money from the employer's cashier without giving a cheque, justifies summary dismissal.

The constitutional right to fair hearing does not apply to dismissal from employment governed by a contract of service, as the employer acts administratively, not quasi-judicially.

The primary duty of a court is to hear parties on their complaints and confine them to the battleground they have chosen. An appellate court should…