Principle Archive

The jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal is appellate and in the circumstances of this case, the Court of Appeal has no original jurisdiction to make…

It is settled that where as the plaintiffs here so claims they must prove their title to the land in dispute by one of the five…

The cardinal principles of the law that is well settled is that a court is not a charitable institution that would grant reliefs that are not…

The Supreme Court will only interfere with concurrent findings of fact made by the lower courts if such findings are shown to be perverse, illegal, or…

Where a party fails to challenge a judgment on grounds of fraud at the trial court or on appeal, but only raises the issue years later…

For the plea of res judicata to succeed, the following conditions must be satisfied: (i) the parties or their privies are the same in both actions;…

A point of law may be raised by way of a preliminary objection if that point, if resolved in favour of the objecting party, will be…

Where an appeal against a judgment of a lower court is dismissed, the judgment of the lower court becomes final, valid, and subsisting. It becomes binding…

Abuse of court process occurs when a party engages in irregular, unusual, or precipitate actions in the judicial process for the sake of litigation itself, with…

The Federal High Court has jurisdiction under Section 251(1)(q) and (r) of the 1999 Constitution to entertain actions against federal agencies and the Attorney-General of the…

The four-year tenure of a Governor first elected under the 1999 Constitution commences from the date of the oath of office, and the word "uninterrupted" does…

When an appointment is declared null and void, the appointment is deemed never to have been made, and all acts performed by the purported appointee are…