Principle Archive

Consolidation will also be refused where it would likely cause embarrassment at the trial such as where the actions are by different plaintiffs, based on the…

Causes or matters pending in the same court may, by order of the court, be consolidated for purposes of hearing and determination. When, therefore, suits are…

The purpose of consolidation, it has been said, is to save costs and time, and therefore it will not usually be ordered unless there is some…

No interlocutory judgment or order from which there has been no appeal shall operate so as to bar or prejudice the court from giving such decision…

Where a cause or matter is heard and ruling or judgment is delivered without jurisdiction, the proceedings will be a nullity and can neither be used…

Having appealed to the Court of Appeal, all matters relating to that appeal must be agitated at that Court. Therefore, the motions which have now led…

Averments made in an affidavit which remained uncontradicted are deemed admitted and can properly be relied upon by the court in reaching its conclusions.

All proceedings in an action subsequent to the hearing or trial down to and including the final judgment or order shall so far as is practicable…

It is an elementary and fundamental principle for the determination of disputes between parties that the judgment must be confined to the issues raised by the…

It is not every slip of the lower court that will result in an appeal being allowed. It is only those mistakes that have been shown…

The Court of Appeal shall have full jurisdiction over the whole proceedings as if the proceedings had been instituted in the Court of Appeal as a…

Where a court's jurisdiction is invoked to undo what has been done so that proceedings before it may not be frustrated or that it may not…