Fraud does not here mean deceit or circumvention; it means an unconscientious use of the power arising out of these circumstances and conditions; and when the…

First, the representation must be a statement of existing fact. Secondly, the representation must be material and unambiguous. Thirdly, the representee must show that he has…

Even if a statement is true in the sense in which the representor meant it but is so obscure that the representee understands it in another…

A consent judgment will be set aside on any ground which may invalidate an agreement on which it is founded would be rescinded. When therefore, a…

This court will not lightly interfere with concurrent findings of fact made by the trial court and the Court of Appeal, unless such findings are perverse…

Exhibits A, B and C which were mere statements by PW1 to the Police in the course of investigation, cannot in law, corroborate the oral evidence…

A voluntary confession of guilt by a prisoner is sufficient to warrant conviction without corroborative evidence if it is direct, positive, duly made and satisfactorily proved.…

An accused person who wants to resile from or retract his earlier confessional statement which he made extra-judiciously to the police, such a statement is not…

Where the extra-judicial statement in the nature of a confession is subsequently denied or retracted by an accused person (as is usually and mostly the case)…

A confession is, by virtue of section 27(1) of the Evidence Act an admission made at any time by a person charged with a crime stating…

To be given an opportunity of being heard before a decision is made against him is a fundamental principle of justice that pre-dated our Constitution. A…

The Court of Appeal referred to our decision in Ukpe Ibodo v. Enarofia where we refused to visit the sins of the counsel upon the client…