Official language of superior courts of record in Nigeria is English and that if documents written in any language other than English are to be tendered…

In cases involving allegations of bias or real likelihood of bias, there must be cogent and reasonable evidence to satisfy the court that there was in…

It is not every mistake or error in a judgment that will result in the appeal being allowed. It is only when the error is substantial…

It is trite law that this court will not disturb concurrent findings of fact of both the trial court and the Court of Appeal unless a…

A charge of infamous conduct must be of a serious infraction of acceptable standard of behaviour or ethics of the profession. It connotes conduct so disreputable…

There is no duty, contrary to what was suggested in the particulars of the first count, on the respondent to transfer the patient to another hospital…

Since the patient's relationship with the practitioner is based on consensus, it follows that the choice of an adult patient with a sound mind to refuse…

When, therefore, the respondent was charged with infamous conduct and particulars were given in the charge of the acts or omission alleged to amount to infamous…

The term infamous conduct is wide. It is futile, in the absence of statutory definition limiting its ambit to restrict its meaning within the confines of…

The right to privacy implies a right to protect one's thought, conscience or religious belief and practice from coercive and unjustified intrusion; and, one's body from…

Any form of possession is sufficient to maintain an action for trespass against a wrong doer as long as it is clear and exclusive. It is…

The latin maxim nemo dat quod non habet is, in my view, apposite in this respect... the appellant's vendor (PW5) acquired no title or interest whatsoever…