Principle Archive

It is now argued that since the High Court of Lagos State had no jurisdiction and the ruling of the High Court had been set aside,…

I cannot see that the lower court has power to do that. Having found that the action was filed in a court which has no jurisdiction,…

The proceedings before the Lagos High Court having been set aside as a nullity, the order by the court below (Court of Appeal) transferring the matter…

The Court of Appeal having rightly found that the Lagos State High Court lacks the requisite jurisdiction to entertain the matter before it, has no right…

All the Court of Appeal ought to have done was to strike out the entire case.

In the absence of any other evidence beyond that of P.W.1, Sumbo Onitiri, I must hold that Exhibit A, is not a mandate for the firm…

Exhibit A, can upon any view be regarded as a mandate for a separate transaction... It is patent from a careful reading of Exhibit A that…

When a vendor merely authorises a house agent to sell at a stated price he must not be taken to be authorising the agent to do…

An agent employed by a vendor to find a purchaser is an agent in a limited sense only. He has authority to describe the property and…

This is a very bad way of showing discourtesy to a lady Judge or infact any Judge at all by referring to him or her in…

Standing by a previous decision which has not been proved to be perverse, or to have been decided per incuriam or proved to be faulty legally…

This doctrine lays down the golden rule that decisions of higher courts of the land are binding on the lower courts in the land. And decisions…