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| TITLE | MAIN ISSUES |
| EDUCATION AND LAW: Tertiary education teachers – Sexually immoral professors – Effect on image of institutions and justice administration | |
| ADEKUNLE V. UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT |
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| EDUCATION AND LAW:- Public tertiary institution of learning established by law – Power of Rector and Council thereto – Rector – Whether has power to remove a staff of institution | |
| ADEREMI ADEDAMOLA AJIDAHUN v MRS. DAPHINE OTERI AJIDAHUN |
EDUCATION AND LAW – CHILD CUSTODY PROCEEDINGS:- Evidence that child requires special education – Evidence that a parent has been providing suitable education for child of the marriage for which divorce petition has been granted – Relevance in determine proper custodial orders |
| EDUCATION AND LAW:- Education of children of divorced parents – Use of court orders to secure same – How treated | |
| ADEYEMI V ADEYEMI |
EDUCATION AND LAW: – Divorce proceedings and custody of children – Mother who is a also student and resident in a place of education – Whether suitable person to award custody of children of marriage and maintenance for same – How treated |
| EDUCATION AND LAW – CHILD CUSTODY PROCEEDINGS:- Evidence that child requires special education – Evidence that a parent has been providing suitable education for child of the marriage for which divorce petition has been granted – Relevance in determining proper custodial orders | |
| AKINTEMI AND 2 OTHERS V. PROF. C. A. ONWUMECHILI AND 2 OTHERS |
EDUCATION LAW:- Tertiary education – Award of degrees – Whether success in Prescribed examinations is not all that is required for earning a degree – Whether there can be no question of publication of results until the Senate has considered the result of each student and pronounced on his or her fitness to be conferred or awarded the degree of the university – Whether the Senate can be compelled to publish a result or make an award of its degree by a court EDUCATION LAW:- Examination Malpractice – Powers of the university to discipline students over same – Where ‘suspension’ or punitive measure quashed by court by way of certiorari due to procedural error – Whether precludes the institution from taking any further action thereto against those students suspected of examination malpractices EDUCATION LAW:- Tertiary institution established by statute – The Visitor – Powers and functions – Distinction between failure of Visitor to act as required and preferring to act one way or another – Whether court can issue an order of mandamus compelling the Visitor to act one way or the other – Whether court can perform visitorial duties |
| EDUCATION AND LAW:- Oral historical accounts – Use of in asserting legal rights over natural resources especially land and waterways – When it would be a dangerous thing to decide a point of law based on same without the support of some written history or some corroborative facts – Whether agreement of parties relevant – Attitude of court | |
| APAMPA V THE STATE |
EDUCATION AND LAW:- Governance of a university – Centrality of the Establishment Statute in determining the role of Senate and Council – Non-academic staff of University appointed by council – Whether deemed a public officer – Relevant considerations |
| EDUCATION AND LAW:- Security of School Premises – 8 year old killed in bamboo fenced school premises by vehicle which crashed through the fence – How treated | |
| AWOLOWO V. SHAGARI AND OTHERS |
EDUCATION AND LAW:- Mathematical calculations and election outcomes – Role of judges thereto – Need to restrict construction of statute to meaning of the clear and unambiguous words of the Legislator – When deemed erroneous |
| EDUCATION AND LAW – ADMISSION INTO UNITY SCHOOLS:- Admission practices based on quota system/state-by-state merit lists instead of a national merit list – Whether infringes constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom from discrimination based on circumstances of birth – Challenge of claimant’s locus standi to bring suit – Whether claimant right is defeated once the admission process is completed – How treated | |
| BANKOLE V WILLIAMS |
EDUCATION AND LAW – PRIVATE TRUST FUND:- Testator with grown doctor son and anxious to provide via a will for the education and maintenance of his 4 children born by a mistress – Establishment of trust funds via will towards the education of minors – Attitude of court thereto |
| EDUCATION LAW:- Education of child of divorced parents – Duty of court to make proper orders to secure same | |
| DIBIE V THE STATE |
EDUCATION LAW:- Students of tertiary education centers and armed robbery – Attitude of court thereto “They are really worrisome in the sense that students who prefer to get money through armed robbery instead of concentrating on their studies for which they were sent to the school – Polytechnic, perhaps, want this Court, to part them at the back and congratulate them for their reprehensible and condemnable “exploit”. So to say.” – Per Ikechi Francis Ogbuagu, JSC |
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EDUCATION AND LAW:- Grant of study leave without pay to an employer – Duty to return to post after period of leave – Salaries paid during the same period – Whether spending salary amounts to fraud on employers – How treated |
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