Principle Archive

The narrow issue in this case for this court to resolve is whether the court below rightly interfered with the said discretion of the trial court...…

Reading sub-rules (b) and (c) of Order 26 together they have unambiguously stated the manner of approaching the court during the court's annual vacation period for…

Where a court conceives that an injustice might occur to any side and true justice as empirically conceived would suffer irremediably then such an order ought…

In the instant case, apart from the issue of fair hearing, the failure of the lower court to consider the cross-appeal has also robbed this court…

The right to a fair hearing in a suit is not only a common law requirement in Nigeria but also a statutory and constitutional requirement. This…

The Court of Appeal being an intermediate appellate court, its decisions do not enjoy the finality as those of Supreme Court by virtue of Section 235…

Generally, it is the duty of citizens of this country to report cases of commission of crime to the Police for their investigation and what happens…

It is not the duty of the Supreme Court to interfere with concurrent findings of facts of the High Court and the Court of Appeal unless…

Appellant claimed that he saw a complaint of theft against him recorded in the Police record book. It is not the duty of the Police to…

From the above, it appears to me that I prefer to go along with the two lower courts in their decisions in holding that the Police…

It is trite law that he who asserts must prove. ... It would thus amount to re-writing the law, if, as learned counsel for the appellant…

A person, cannot appear both as a person or party and as counsel for himself.