To sustain a plea of res judicata, the party pleading it must satisfy that the parties (or their privies) are the same in the present suit…

Material facts must be pleaded; evidence led on any matter not pleaded goes to no issue and ought to be disregarded. One must first show that…

An order for injunction must be clear and certain. Restraining a party from crossing only the western boundary defeats the purpose, as they remain free to…

The Court of Appeal cannot gratuitously embark on a voyage of discovery to deal with all errors in the judgment of the court of first instance.…

The test for determining the truth of a confessional statement is to seek any other evidence of circumstances that make it probable that the confession is…

A free and voluntary confession of guilt, whether judicial or extrajudicial, if direct, positive, and properly established, is sufficient proof of guilt to sustain a conviction,…

When an accused person retracts a confessional statement at trial, it is a matter of fact for the trial court to resolve. A conviction can still…

It is not the law that a true and voluntary confessional statement not read over or confirmed before a superior police officer ceases ipso facto to…

Section 34(3) of the Evidence Act provides that the absence of a public servant required to give evidence is sufficiently accounted for by the production of…

A person is taken to intend the natural and probable consequences of his acts. Intent to murder can be inferred from the acts of the accused,…

When an issue is not placed before an appellate court, it has no business to deal with it, particularly when it has not received argument from…

The Supreme Court will not normally interfere with concurrent findings of the two lower courts unless there is a miscarriage of justice or a violation of…