Principle Archive

Exhibits A, B and C which were mere statements by PW1 to the Police in the course of investigation, cannot in law, corroborate the oral evidence…

A voluntary confession of guilt by a prisoner is sufficient to warrant conviction without corroborative evidence if it is direct, positive, duly made and satisfactorily proved.…

An accused person who wants to resile from or retract his earlier confessional statement which he made extra-judiciously to the police, such a statement is not…

Where the extra-judicial statement in the nature of a confession is subsequently denied or retracted by an accused person (as is usually and mostly the case)…

A confession is, by virtue of section 27(1) of the Evidence Act an admission made at any time by a person charged with a crime stating…

To be given an opportunity of being heard before a decision is made against him is a fundamental principle of justice that pre-dated our Constitution. A…

The Court of Appeal referred to our decision in Ukpe Ibodo v. Enarofia where we refused to visit the sins of the counsel upon the client…

Liability for libel depends, not on the intention of the defamer, but on the fact of defamation. A person is liable for the reasonable inferences to…

Although it is not necessary to prove the truth of every word in the libel, the defendant is however obliged to prove that the main charge…

To establish a plea of justification the defendant must prove that the defamatory imputation is true. The defendant must justify the precise imputation complained of. In…

The appellant was perfectly justified in discussing this issue in paragraph 9.0 at p. 16 of his brief. This objection is therefore overruled.

An appellate court ought not to upset the award of damages by a trial court merely because if it had tried the matter it would have…