A judgment between the same parties over the same subject-matter and issues is forever binding on their privies not because the judgment is right.

Other factors which should be considered in assessing damages in libel cases are social standing of the plaintiff and the rate of inflation which has adversely…

It must be reiterated here that every libel is of itself a wrong in regard to which the law imputes general damages. If a plaintiff proves…

An award must be adequate to assuage for the injury to the plaintiff's reputation. Indeed, it must atone for the assaults on the plaintiff's character and…

In the instant case leading to this appeal, the evidence of the Respondent ... which was not controverted in evidence by the Appellants ... It is…

The fact that the defendants did not apologise or withdraw the publication, cannot be taken into account, but it is material in so far as it…

As a matter of general principle, an appellate court would not interfere with an award of damages by a trial court simply because faced with a…

In order to interfere or justify the interfering with any decision of a trial judge on the amount or quantum of damages awarded or awardable; the…

Circumstantial evidence that will meet the requirement of onus of proof in criminal cases is the evidence that fixes the accused person to the crime with…

Proof beyond reasonable doubt does not mean proof beyond the shadow of a doubt. The law would fail to protect the community if it admitted fanciful…

It would be a dangerous precedent to hold that once parties submit themselves to a native arbitration such parties are precluded from going before regular courts…

Order 8 Rule 2(1) supra talks of grounds of appeal and sub rule (2) also reproduced above presupposes that there must be grounds of appeal before…