"The law is settled that this court will not interfere with the concurrent findings of fact made by both the High Court and the Court of Appeal where the findings...
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"Since the court below had agreed with the High Court that courts had no jurisdiction in the matter, I think the court below was right as it would amount to...
"On a first look, it would appear that the definition of a 'chieftaincy question' under section 165 of the 1963 Constitution is quite wide. But when it is compared with...
"Where a statute prescribes a legal line of action for determination of an issue, be that issue an administrative matter, chieftaincy matter or matter of taxation, the aggrieved party must...
"The appeal of the appellant to the court below was only competent to the extent that the two issues raised were a challenge to the finding of the trial court...
"A privileged occasion is … an occasion where the person who makes a communication has an interest or a duty, legal, social or moral, to make it to the person...
"In general an action lies for the malicious publication of statements which are false in fact, and injurious to the character of another and the law considers such publication as...
"It is trite law that parties and the court are bound by the pleadings of the parties and the court cannot base its judgment on a matter or fact not...
"Generally speaking the law is that amendment to pleadings for the purpose of determining the real issues in controversy between the parties ought to be allowed at any stage of...
"The law is that an appellate court will not ordinarily interfere with the findings of the trial court except in circumstances such as where the trial court has not made...
"Therefore the Court of Appeal having granted the respondent's prayer for leave to appeal without any objection by the appellant are perfectly entitled in my view, to grant the 3rd...
"By virtue of the provisions of Section 222 (a) of the 1979 Constitution which is applicable to this case, the Court of Appeal has the discretion in granting or refusing...