Principle Archive

The Supreme Court has no duty to interfere with concurrent findings of fact by the two lower courts unless they are shown to be perverse.

A contradiction between shoe and slippers is not fundamental so as to affect the identity of the appellant based on the totality of the evidence. What…

When a criminal act is done by several persons in furtherance of the common intention of all, each of such persons is liable for that act…

The jurisdiction to entertain any suit alleging violation of fundamental rights can only be exercised by a High Court in accordance with the provisions of section…

There is nothing in the 1979 Constitution that renders the death penalty under Section 319(1) of the Criminal Code of Lagos State unconstitutional. Sections 30(1), 213(2)(d),…

For a valid arraignment, the accused must be placed before the court unfettered, the charge must be read and explained to his satisfaction by the registrar,…

In a chieftaincy dispute, the onus is on the plaintiff to prove acts of rulership over the entire area, just as a plaintiff in a land…

An appellate court will not normally upset findings of fact made by trial courts unless such findings are unsupported, are not proper conclusions or inferences drawn…

The plaintiff has the onerous duty of establishing his claim before the court, while the defendants, in the absence of a counter-claim, have no duty to…

To amount to waiver, two elements must co-exist: (i) the party against whom the doctrine is raised must have knowledge or be aware of the act…

Parties are bound by their agreement, and a determination of the contract without complying with the notice provisions cannot be said to be valid.

Where the language, terms, or words of a written contract are clear and unambiguous, they must be given their ordinary and actual meaning as such terms…