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The unchallengeable fact in this case is that the applicant is and would remain the banker of bankers. On that alone it is not in doubt…

In the determination of this prayer, I must consider judiciously and judicially the facts presented in the instant application. After a careful consideration of such facts…

More important, however, is the duty of this Court, as indeed that of other Courts, to ensure that its orders are not nugatory. The applicants are…

The duty of the court in the consideration of grounds of appeal proposed by an applicant to support an application for leave to appeal is limited…

Before an application of this kind could succeed, the applicant must satisfy the Court that there are good and satisfactory reasons for not filing his application…

It is the law that multiplicity of actions on the same matter may constitute an abuse of the process of the Court. But this is so…

Abuse of process of the court is a term generally applied to a proceeding which is wanting in bonafides and is frivolous, vexatious or oppressive. Abuse…

Complying with the order of conditional stay of execution ordered by the court below cannot estop the applicant from appealing against that order, if it so…

The concept of abuse of judicial process is imprecise. It involves circumstances and situations of infinite variety and conditions. Its one common feature is the improper…

If a document is referred to in a pleading it becomes part of the pleading so that the court can look at the averments in the…

It is crystal clear from the provisions of section 375(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act that it is not every consignee or indorsee of a bill…

It will be startling, if not absurd, that the law will, without more, allow an agent of a principal to arrogate to himself more claim of…