Principle Archive

To succeed in establishing bias, the party complaining must show: (i) that the personal relation is a party to the action; (ii) that the personal relation…

It is plain to me, and I agree with the minority judgment of the court below that the serious misconception in the argument of learned counsel…

I cannot conceive of a real likelihood of bias on the part of the Honourable Justice Ige in this matter when, as a part of her…

If Courts are to go by spurious allegations of bias as in this case, then no Legal Practitioner can be tried by any Court because he…

There is a serious misconception on this part of learned counsel's submission namely that he is unable to separate Chief Bola Ige as husband and father…

The fact that the learned trial Judge at the time she tried the case was (and she still is) the wife of Chief Bola Ige and…

The test to be applied in determining whether or not there is bias is whether a reasonable man, in all the circumstances, might suppose that there…

To disqualify a person from acting in a judicial or quasi-judicial capacity upon the ground of interest (other than pecuniary or proprietary) in the subject-matter of…

A claim for N900,000.00 as special and general damages is clearly above the jurisdiction of the Magistrates' Court. What a party would be entitled to even…

The Magistrates' Court has no powers to make a declaratory judgment.

If there are two courts which are faced with substantially the same question, it is desirable to be sure that that question is debated in only…

I have shown that the action taken in the High Court between the same parties raises apparently more issues than that brought in the Magistrates' Court.…