"It is true that the members of the National Assembly have been elected to the Assembly as members but they cannot be described as members of all the states because...
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"It appears to me to be an indispensable condition of such conduct being admissible that it should be performed with knowledge of the material facts. In the present case the...
"The law is clear and well settled on the point. It may be stated thus: if a man by his words or conduct wilfully endeavours to cause another to believe...
"It is a fundamental requirement of the law that before the plea of estoppel per rem judicatam can succeed, it must be clearly shown that the parties, issues and subject...
"I have carefully read through the record myself and my irresistible conclusion is that the lower courts were right in their rejection of the plea of res judicata relied upon...
"To sustain a plea of 'res judicata', the party pleading it must satisfy the following conditionality, to wit — (1) The parties (or their privies as the case may be)...
"The appellants cannot re-open the issues decided in those findings merely on the ground that they can now produce better evidence. It was wrong of the learned trial Judge to...
"Issue estoppel arises where an issue had earlier on been adjudicated upon by a court of competent jurisdiction and the same issue comes incidentally in question in a subsequent proceedings...
"The parties to the present proceedings are parties or privies to the parties in suit No. P.107/67 before Holden, C.J. sitting in the Port Harcourt Judicial Division of the High...
"To sustain a plea of res judicata the party pleading it… must satisfy the following conditions, to wit:- 1. That the parties or their privies as the case may be,...
"A decision not on the merits could not qualify as a defence through the principle of Res Judicata. Where a suit was preliminarily dismissed before hearing on its merit, such...
"A party to civil proceedings is not allowed to make an assertion against the other party, whether of facts or legal consequences of facts, the correctness of which is an...
