"It is settled law that the judgment in a representative action is binding on all the members of the class represented as they are deemed to be present by representation."
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"Privies are of three classes and they are (1) privies in blood (as ancestor and heir); (2) privies in law (as testator and executor; intestate and administrator); (3) privies in...
"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...
"In civil cases, before the principle of res judicata is applied, the res (the subject matter) in contention must be the same; the issue, and the parties the same, in...
"Where an action is brought against a defendant personally and prosecuted to judgment, and later a further action is brought against him in a representative capacity by the plaintiff in...
"Upon a close study of section 34(1) of the Evidence Act, Cap. 112, it concerns the relevance of evidence for proving in a subsequent proceeding the truth of the facts...
"For the plea of res judicata to succeed, there must at least be established that the identity of parties (or privies), the identity of the res, namely, the subject matter...
"Where a claim which had been dismissed by a court is cleverly split into multiple claims in a subsequent suit, the doctrine of estoppel per rem judicatam applies to bar...