Principle Archive

An employer who dismisses an employee with retrospective effect by reason of antecedent misconduct known to the employer all along cannot treat the contract as determined…

Lending essential working material to an opposing businessman without permission is incompatible with the faithful discharge of an employee's duty and justifies summary dismissal.

The principle that "the consideration for work is wages and the consideration for wages is work" (no work, no pay) has no application where the employee's…

Where an employee's absence from work is due to arrest and prosecution at the instance of the employer, and the employee was not interdicted, he is…

Where a counter-claim has no basis, it is vexatious and oppressive, meant to harass the respondent. Such an action should be discouraged by the court.

Sections 158(4)(a) and 161(3) of the 1963 Constitution effectively ousted the jurisdiction of the court in chieftaincy matters. A person's vested right must be determined by…

The jurisdiction of a court is determined by the existing law at the time the cause of action in dispute arose, not by the existing law…

A party who submits to a Commission's jurisdiction by attendance, leading evidence, and failing to question it at that point is deemed to have waived any…

No Government or Governor shall rule by mere pronouncements at a Press Conference. A vested right can only be taken away by law validly passed, not…

Section 24 of the Chiefs Law, Cap. 19 Laws of Western Region of Nigeria 1959 stipulated that no court shall have jurisdiction to entertain any civil…

A court cannot affirm a decision on one hand and then make comments adverse to that same decision on the other hand. It cannot approbate and…

In judicial review, the court must not stray into appellate jurisdiction. The court's power is to see whether the public body has contravened the law by…