The Sharia Court of Appeal exercises only appellate and supervisory jurisdiction; it is not conferred with original jurisdiction, and the High Court retains first instance jurisdiction…

An order of injunction against a deceased person becomes otiose upon his death, as the court cannot enforce an order against a dead person.

Under Section 213(3) of the 1979 Constitution, leave is required for an appeal to the Supreme Court on grounds of mixed law and fact; failure to…

A plaintiff must set out clearly who founded the land, how it was founded, and the names of persons who exercised acts of ownership before it…

A plaintiff seeking a declaration of title to land must prove his case by cogent and credible evidence, relying on the strength of his own case,…

The Supreme Court will be loath to interfere with concurrent findings of fact unless they result in miscarriage of justice, violate principles of law, or are…

Every court has the duty to preserve the subject matter of litigation, especially where the appellant cannot repay the respondent if the appeal succeeds.

A mandatory injunction will lie to reverse a step already taken by a party in an interlocutory application if the step was taken to "steal a…

Obtaining an ex-parte order from a lower court while an application is pending in a higher court, with notice to the other party, is capable of…

Where information from an accused leads to the discovery of a fact, the discovery and the fact that it was made in consequence of the information…

Conviction for an offence disclosed by the evidence is permissible without re-arraignment, provided the offence arose directly from the facts of the main charge and is…

Where a person is charged with an offence but the evidence establishes another offence under the same Act, the offender may be convicted of that offence…