Principle Archive

What the Native Court did in suit No.81/35 in regard to the sketch it prepared was to illustrate in visual form the terms of the boundary…

Where a party fails to join issue on material facts pleaded by the opposite party, such facts may be deemed admitted. The respondents filed amended statements…

Such irregularity which will compel an order of retrial could be where, if the trial Judge failed in his primary duty in the evaluation of evidence…

A retrial order is not made without sufficient grounds. It is fundamental that an appellate court should bear in mind that in exercising its discretion to…

It cannot be over-emphasised that the evaluation of evidence and the ascription of probative value to such evidence are the primary functions of the court of…

Admission of an offence by an accused person to other persons may amount to sufficient corroboration in law. So in R. v. Francis Kufi (1960) WNLR…

In the present case, there can be no doubt that the learned trial Judge duly warned himself of the danger of convicting the appellant on the…

I think I ought to state at this stage that it is not a rule of law that an accused person in a charge of rape…

In legal parlance, 'corroboration' has been held not to be a technical term of art and means no more than evidence tending to confirm, support and…

The fact that PW1 said that the appellant inserted his penis into her vagina is not ipso facto sufficient proof of penetration in the absence of…

It is an established practice in criminal law that though corroboration of the evidence of the prosecutrix in a rape case is not essential in law,…

The learned trial Judge then proceeded in his judgment to ask a pertinent question. He said: 'The question to examine now is whether there is anything…