LEGAL PRINCIPLE: APPELLATE PRACTICE — Concurrent Findings — Supreme Court Will Not Interfere Unless Perverse
PRINCIPLE STATEMENT
It is not the practice of this court to interfere with concurrent findings of the two lower courts except where such findings are perverse or unsupported by evidence or occasioned a miscarriage of justice.
RATIO DECIDENDI (SOURCE)
Per Edozie, JSC, in Solola & Anor v. State (2005) NLC-2682003(SC) at p. 13; Paras D–E.
"It is not the practice of this court to interfere with such concurrent findings of the two lower courts except where such findings are perverse or unsupported by evidence or occasioned a miscarriage of justice."
EXPLANATION / SCOPE
Concurrent findings binding unless perverse, unsupported, or causing miscarriage. The principle applies to appellate practice.