ELDERS LAW CASES/JUDGMENTS
POLICY, PRACTICE & PUBLISHING LAW REPORTS, 3PLR
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TITLE |
MAIN ISSUES |
| ELDERS LAW: – Grandparents and Custody proceedings – Health of septuagenarian – Good physical and mental health – Consideration as factor in award of custody of child | |
| ADDO V. THE STATE |
ELDERS AND LAW:- Healthcare, Religion and Elderly Persons – Access to healthcare – Reliance on religious platforms and practices for health related care – Implication for justice administration |
| ELDERS LAW:- Maintenance of aged parents via trust created under a Will – Where Executrix is granted discretion to provide maintenance to aged person – Whether elderly person has a legal right to claim for adequate maintenance where trust nto performed – What needs to be shown to succeed | |
| AKANNI V THE QUEEN |
ELDERS LAW:- Aged people and Security of life and property – Gruesome murder of aged person – Aged woman locked into a room and burnt to death in her son’s house set on fire by mob – duty of prosecution to secure conviction – effect of failure thereof |
| APPIAH DANKWA AND OTHERS v. THE KING |
ELDERS LAW:- Criminal proceedings involving accused persons – Sentencing and age of convicted persons – Where older men were throughout the instigators and ring leaders, and that their influence and their authority was used to lead the younger members of the community into lawless and violent courses – attitude of court to plea for leniency on account of advanced age |
| ELDERS LAW: Elderly persons and access to decent housing/accommodation arrangements – Elderly grandmother sharing sleeping room with 4 other persons including a young man with untreated skin conditions – Murder in the middle of the night – implication for justice administration | |
| DR. OLADIPO KAJA v. ALHAJI SALAWU OKE |
ELDERS LAW – CLAIM FOR PERSONAL INJURY:- Negligent healthcare services occasioning personal injury – Assessment of quantum of damages – Whether advanced age is relevant consideration towards plea for diminution of damages– How treated |
| [ELDERS LAW: – Conviction of elderly person [grandmother]for capital offence – Killing of grandchild for ritual and witch-craft purposes – Sentencing and other considerations] | |
| EZEKIEL ADEKUNLE V. THE STATE |
ELDERS AND LAW:- Elderly women – Bodily and mental wellbeing – Practice of attributing witchcraft to elderly women afflicted by physical and psychological distress like delirium – Attitude of court thereto – Implication for justice administration |
| ELDERS LAW: Aged person of 70 years in good health and good condition meeting with a terrible accident caused by negligence of driver – assessment of damages for shortening of length and quality of life – advanced age as a factor in assessment of damages – how treated | |
| IHONRE V. THE STATE |
ELDERS AND LAW:- Murder of an aged grandmother for alleged practice of witchcraft – How treated by court |
| ELDERS AND LAW:- 80 year old farmer as witness in land proceedings – Inability to recall relevant evidence – How treated by court | |
| MUHAMMEDU GADAM V THE QUEEN |
ELDERS LAW:- Care and support of elderly person – protection from assault and stigmatization |
| ELDERS LAW:- Elderly pensioner given scandalous and excessive electricity bills – Failure to rectify same after several petitions – Use of third party agent to pay bill due to advanced age – Publication of alleged defamatory content through such agent – – Whether can sustain a claim for defamation | |
| ODUFUWA AND ANOTHER V. JOHNSON |
Elderly Women and Business – Possession of Market Stall – Failure to comply with statutory requirement as to monthly stallage payment in advance leading to eviction from a shop held for over 25 years – Effect |
| YESUFU V. THE STATE |
ELDERS AND LAW:- Elderly rural women and accusation of witchcraft – Implication for justice administration |
