This court has in many decided cases classified the category of grounds of law or fact and although the line of distinction between law simpliciter and…

It is settled by a long line of decided cases that when a ground of appeal alleges either an error in law or misdirection in law:…

There is a big legal difference between the name of a firm of legal practitioner and the name of a legal practitioner simpliciter. While the name…

Since the decision/Ruling of the court below, is interlocutory, an appeal such as the instant one, is not as of right and it is without the…

It is trite that appeal does not lie as of right against an award of costs by a court.

Both parties pleaded estimates by engineers, and both parties averred to rely on the estimates, the appellant's estimates of repairs were admitted in evidence without objection…

Failure of the defendant to challenge the items claimed does not lessen the requirement of the strict proof on the plaintiff. … The mere fact that…

A special damage is such a loss that will not normally be presumed as the natural consequence of the defendant's fault, but which depends on the…

The nature of the pleading and the evidence must establish the entitlement to such damages which will immediately lend to the measurement and quantification of the…

The principles upon which an appellate court acts in an appeal against the quantum of damages are well settled and were stated thus by Greer, LJ…

The parties having by their evidence admitted that there is only one No. 17 Olusola Street, Ikate Surulere at every material time the burden to prove…

To found a plea of estoppel per rem judicatam, the defendant/respondent had to satisfy the court that: (1) The parties were the same; (2) That the…