A cause of action is the question as to the civil rights and obligation of the plaintiff founding the action to be determined by the court…

A cause of action is defined in 'Stroud's Judicial Dictionary' as the entire set of circumstances giving rise to an enforceable claim. To our mind, it…

Our law reports are replete with authorities that show that in chieftaincy cases, all a plaintiff is required to do is to show in his statement…

I think the interest or injury test applied by the Federal Supreme Court in Olawoyin v. Attorney-General of Northern Nigeria (supra) should remain the yardstick in…

From the extracts of their Lordship's judgments one can clearly see that there was no majority of the Court in favour of Bello JSC's interpretation of…

A plaintiff who only claims declarations so long as he pleads sufficient interest in the subject-matter of the suit, has the necessary locus standi to prosecute…

The question whether or not a plaintiff has a locus standi in a suit is determinable from a totality of all the averments in his statement…

Unless in the clearest of cases, an intermediate court should endeavour to resolve all issues put before it. There are decided cases of this court which…

A free and voluntary confession of guilt made by an accused person, if it is direct and positive, is sufficient to warrant his conviction without any…

Where the facts proved by the prosecution do not fall within any of the circumstances enumerated in Section 316 of the Criminal Code for the offence…

The test for whether an act is of a nature likely to endanger human life must depend on whether death or the loss of human life…

Where death results from the very act of ravishment, the act and the purpose are one and the same thing. In such circumstances, in the absence…