Principle Archive

Under section 22(3) of the Ondo State Chiefs Law, any dispute, even if it touches only the question of eligibility, must be submitted first to the…

Where a statute prescribes a legal line of action for determination of an issue, the aggrieved party must exhaust all remedies in that law before going…

The appeal to the court below was only competent to the extent that the two issues raised were a challenge to the finding of the trial…

A privileged occasion exists where the maker of a communication has an interest or duty (legal, social, or moral) to make it to the recipient, and…

An action lies for malicious publication of false statements injurious to character, unless fairly made in discharge of a public or private duty, or in conduct…

Parties and the court are bound by the pleadings, and the court cannot base its judgment on a matter or fact not pleaded, as facts not…

Amendment to pleadings ought to be allowed at any stage to determine real issues, unless it will result in injustice, surprise, embarrassment, mala fides, or injury…

An appellate court will not ordinarily interfere with trial court findings except where the trial court has not made proper use of the opportunity of seeing…

The Court of Appeal having granted the respondent's prayer for leave to appeal without any objection was perfectly entitled to grant the deeming order deeming the…

The Court of Appeal has the discretion in granting or refusing an application for leave to appeal as an interested party, and any such discretion exercised…

This court does not substitute its own discretion for that of the court below in applications like this, unless the court below did not act in…

By Order 3 Rule 4(2) of the Court of Appeal Rules, the two conditions for grant of extension of time for leave to appeal are: good…