"For the plea of estoppel per rem judicatam to succeed, the party relying on it must establish that — (i) the parties or their privies are the same, that is...
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"The plaintiffs' claims for forfeiture which is founded on the alleged customary tenancy and damages for trespass which is based on their ownership and possession of the said land are...
"Where one or more of such issues have been distinctly raised in a cause of action and appropriately resolved or determined between the same parties in a court of competent...
"In determining whether the plea of estoppel per rem judicatam or whether the issues, the subject of the two actions and the parties are the same, the court is permitted...
"Where an issue has earlier on been adjudicated upon by a court of competent jurisdiction and the same issue comes incidentally in question in any subsequent proceedings between the same...
"Public policy demands that there should be an end to litigation once a Court of competent jurisdiction has settled by a final decision, the matters in contention between the parties....
"For issue estoppel to apply the following ingredients must be present - 1. the parties must be the same in the previous and present actions; 2. the same question that...
"Whatever their views on it, it was not their duty to depart from it. Their duty was to give effect to it, moreso that it is a final decision."
"Having found and correctly... that on the pleadings of the parties in S/23/74 'the parties certainly joined issues on whether Ogodo signed the lease Exhibit D as his own or...
"Issue estoppel applies whether the point involved in the earlier decision is one of fact or law or one of mixed fact and law."
"I do not think it is right to allow... massive extrinsic evidence... I believe it to be a better course when the link between the previous and the instant cases...
"I do not think it is right to allow... massive extrinsic evidence... I believe it to be a better course when the link between the previous and the instant cases...