The jurisdiction of a court is determined by the existing law at the time the cause of action in dispute arose, not by the existing law…

A party who submits to a Commission's jurisdiction by attendance, leading evidence, and failing to question it at that point is deemed to have waived any…

No Government or Governor shall rule by mere pronouncements at a Press Conference. A vested right can only be taken away by law validly passed, not…

Section 24 of the Chiefs Law, Cap. 19 Laws of Western Region of Nigeria 1959 stipulated that no court shall have jurisdiction to entertain any civil…

A court cannot affirm a decision on one hand and then make comments adverse to that same decision on the other hand. It cannot approbate and…

In judicial review, the court must not stray into appellate jurisdiction. The court's power is to see whether the public body has contravened the law by…

Where a commission's powers are advisory, deliberative, or investigatory, its recommendations have no legal and binding effect until accepted and confirmed by the authorising body. However,…

A Local Government has no right to abolish a customary law agreement between parties or authorise trespass. Until it acts under sections 6(3) and 28(3) of…

Where a grant of land is made under native law and custom for exploitation and cultivation, and the grantee pays annual tribute, the grant is for…

Where parties agree that the tenant would deforest the land and after that period start paying perpetual yearly rent, the grant is not a term lease…

An unregistered registrable instrument is inadmissible to prove legal title but is admissible to prove equitable interest, such as possession and payment of rent.

Where the judgment is in respect of the entire land claimed and not part of it, the order of injunction must relate to the entire land…