Principle Archive

The fact that the defendants did not apologise or withdraw the publication, cannot be taken into account, but it is material in so far as it…

As a matter of general principle, an appellate court would not interfere with an award of damages by a trial court simply because faced with a…

In order to interfere or justify the interfering with any decision of a trial judge on the amount or quantum of damages awarded or awardable; the…

Circumstantial evidence that will meet the requirement of onus of proof in criminal cases is the evidence that fixes the accused person to the crime with…

Proof beyond reasonable doubt does not mean proof beyond the shadow of a doubt. The law would fail to protect the community if it admitted fanciful…

It would be a dangerous precedent to hold that once parties submit themselves to a native arbitration such parties are precluded from going before regular courts…

Order 8 Rule 2(1) supra talks of grounds of appeal and sub rule (2) also reproduced above presupposes that there must be grounds of appeal before…

The conditions precedents to bindingness of a customary arbitration are as follows: (a) there must have been a voluntary submission of the disputes by the parties…

This is an appeal on concurrent findings of facts which the law does not permit an appeal court to interfere with unless the findings are not…

The position of the law is that the realm of believing any witness is within the prerogative of a trial judge who had the singular advantage…

Any issue not covered by any ground of appeal, is incompetent and will be struck out.

It is indeed a cardinal principle of law that pleadings are summary of the facts of a case that must be served on an opponent to…