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| TITLE | MAIN ISSUES |
| ASANI KOSEBINU & ORS. V. MISIRI ALIMI & ORS. | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – TIME FOR DELIVERY OF JUDGMENT: Whether a court must deliver its judgment in a case within the time frame for the delivery of judgments stated in Section 258 of the 1999 Constitution |
| ASOLO & ORS V. TIRIMISIYU ASOLO & ORS | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – REVERSAL OF JUDGMENT: Circumstance under which a judgment will be reversed though not based on error per se |
| ASTRO EXITO NAVEGACION SA V. SOUTHLAND ENTERPRISE CO LTD AND ANOTHER | JUDGMENT AND ORDER:- Specific Performance – Letter of Credit which terms of payment not fully met – Refusal of buyer to counter Notice of Readiness – Whether Court has jurisdiction to order buyer to sign failing which Court can execute same so as to secure specific performance – Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925, s47. |
| ATAKULU V. FAWIBE | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Court striking out a matter before it – where competent to make further orders in the interest of justice thereafter. |
| ATOYEBI V. THE GOVERNOR OF OYO STATE | JUDGMENT AND ORDER -Judgment – Summary of evidence and evaluation of evidence in u Judgment – Distinction between and what court should do. |
| ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF OGUN STATE V. ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Vague order – propriety of granting same. |
| ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF ADAMAWA STATE AND ORS. V. ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION AND ORS. | JUDGMENT AND ORDER:- Legislative judgment or judicial legislation – Meaning of-Attitude of court thereto – Whether enforceable |
| ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF PLATEAU STATE V. ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF NASARAWA STATE | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Judgment of court – Contents of’How proved. |
| ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION V. ATIKU ABUBAKAR | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Error in judgment – Whether every error will result in reversal of judgment on appeal. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Judgment – Error therein – Whether even error will result in reversal of judgment on appeal. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Judgment of trial court – Essentials of – Whether requires a particular form. |
| AUGUSTA CHIME V. MOSES CHIME | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Judgment delivered without due notice of delivery date – where a party is absent in court on date of delivery of judgment – whether the judgment is thereby null and void. |
| AUGUSTINE NDULUE V. NWANKWO IBEZIM & ANOR | JUDGMENT AND ORDER:- Error or Mistake in Judgment – Whether it is not every mistake or error in a judgment that will result in the appeal being allowed – Whether it is only when the error is substantial in that it has occasioned a miscarriage of justice that the appellate court is bound to interfere |
| AUGUSTINE NWAFOR MOJEKWU V. MRS. THERESA IWUCHUKWU | JUDGMENT AND ORDER:- Decision of court – Judicial declaration or pronouncement – Basis of-Need to be founded on cause. |
| AUGUSTINE OBINECHE & ORS V. HUMPHREY AKUSOBI & ORS | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – whether a final judgment of court may constitute a prima facie act of possession where it pertains to a land in dispute- validity and bindingness of a previous judgment |
| AUGUSTINE ONYEKACHUKWU V. THE STATE | JUDGMENT:- Qualities of a good judgment JUDGMENT AND ORDER – JUDGMENT:- Need for judgment to reflect the fact that the court or judge appreciated the basis upon which the parties contested or prosecuted their cases |
| AVINASH CHANDER MALHOTRA V. BANK OF SINGAPORE LIMITED (FORMERLY ING ASIA PRIVATE BANK LIMITED) | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – DECLARATORY JUDGMENTS- whether enforceable against Defendant |
| AVON CROWN CAPS AND CONTAINERS LTD. V. NIGERIAN NATIONAL SHIPPING LINE NIGERIAN PORTS PLC | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Ruling of court – whether there was a first ruling in existence creating a binding precedent for the latter ruling. |
| AWOSILE V. SOTUNBO | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Relief not sought – Court granting same – Propriety of. |
| AYENI V. OLUKOLU | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Terms of settlement made into an order of court – Effect thereof on parties thereto and their successors in title. |
| AYINLA MUKADAM V. LAARO AKANBI | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Functus officio – when an appellate court becomes functus officio. |
| AYISA V. AKANJI | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Null art – Where act or order or proceedings declared a nullity – Effect. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Null order or judgment – Effect of – Attitude of appellate court thereto. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Retrial order – When it will he made by appellate court. |
| AYOADE A. ADEWUYI AND ORS. V. ANDREW AJUKO ODUKWE | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Slip made by a Judge in a judgment – whether it will occasion a miscarriage of justice. |
| AYOKE V. BELLO | JUDGMENT AND ORDER:- Finding of trial judge – Where not appealed against or set aside – Whether subsists as a valid judgment as against the parties to it |
| AYYE V. YAR’ADUWA | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Review of final judgments given under Islamic law – Application to Area Courts. |
| B V.B (INJUNCTION RESTRAINT ON LEAVING JURISDICTION | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Injunction – Post-judgment – Injunction restraining defendant from leaving jurisdiction – Consent order disposing of action brought by husband and providing for husband to pay wife’s costs – Husband failing to pay wife’s costs – Husband foreign national on visit to England – Whether court having power to restrain husband from leaving jurisdiction until he paid wife’s costs – Supreme Court Act 1981, s 37(1). |
| B.O.N. V. OJEBA LTD | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Judgment based on facts not pleaded – Validity of JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Non-suit – Order of – Nature and effect of JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Retrial order – When it will be made |
| BABA V. HABIB NIGERIA BANK LTD | 3P JUDGEMENT AND ORDER – Jurisdiction of court – lack of – proper order to make. |
| BABATOLA V. ALADEJANA | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Judgment – Whether court will give against person not party to a suit. |
| BADEJO V. FEDERAL MINISTER OF EDUCATION | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Consequential order – Where trial court struck out suit on the ground that the plaintiff has no locus standi – Appellate court overruling the trial court – Proper order to make. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Declaratory action – Power of court to make declaratory order-Scope and extent of -When to grant -When not to grant. |
| BAKARE V. L. S. C. S. C | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Declaratory judgment -Nature of- When it will not he granted |
| BALOGUN V. ODE | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Final decision – Meaning of. |
| BALOGUN V. OLIGBEDE | JUDGMENT AND ORDER -Counter-claim – Need to decide one way or the other. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Judgment of court – What it should contain |
| BALOGUN V. U.B.A. LTD. | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Non-suit – When ordered. |
| BALOGUN V. AFOLAYAN | JUDGMENT AND ORDER -Default judgment – validity and effect of. |
| BAMGBOYE V. UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN | |
| BARCLAYS BANK INTERNATIONAL LTD V. LEVIN BROS (BRADFORD) LTD | JUDGMENT AND ORDERS:– Order for Payment of sum of money – Foreign currency – Jurisdiction to order payment of sum expressed in foreign currency –Whether court has jurisdiction to order payment of sum expressed in foreign currency |
| BARIDAM V. STATE | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Decision of trial court – When perverse. |
| BASHIR ALADE SHITTA-BEY V. THE FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION | JUDGMENT AND ORDER:- Order of reinstatement – Legal effect – Correlative duty placed on employee consequently |
| BAYERO V. CRUSADER INS. CO. LTD | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Execution of judgment -Attached immovable property When can be sold – Order 7 rule 6(l) of the Judgment (Enforcement) Rules. |
| BELLO MUSA MAGAJI V. ALHAJI ISHOLA ARE OGELE | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – purport of a decision being against the weight of evidence –when a verdict of a court is perverse- when to invite the doctrine of stare decisis |
| BELOXXI INDUSTRIES LTD & ANOR. V. HWA TAI INDUSTRIES BERHARD LTD. | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – SUMMARY JUDGMENT: Whether the mere filing of an affidavit by the defendant automatically entitle him to defend |
| BEN C. EMODI & ORS V. MRS. PATRICIA C. EMODI & ORS | JUDGMENT:- finding of court which had not been appealed – whether binding and conclusive – Section 62 of the Evidence Act, 2011 |
| BEN JEKPE V. CHIEF (DR.) S.T. ALOKWE | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Trial courts – procedure to be adopted in writing judgments – duty to evaluate evidence led by parties irrespective of style of writing. |
| BENDEL FEED AND FLOUR MILLS LTD V. SEABOARD SALES CORPORATION | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Reliefs not sought by parties – propriety of court granting same. |
| BENJAMINE DAMINABO IWO & ORS V. HUBERT OCKIYA & ORS | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – DELIVERY OF JUDGMENT: Effect of judgment delivered after three months of the conclusion of final addresses and the remedy thereof |
| BENNETH UDE AGU V. MAXWELL NNADI | JUDGMENT AND ORDER:– Failure to resolve a vital issue – effect of same on judgment. |
| BEREDUGO V. COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECH | JUDGMENT AND ORDER -Declaration – When it will be ordered. |
| BERLIET NIGERIA LTD. V. ALHAJI MUSTAPHA KACHALLA | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – ORDER OF INTEREST: Whether a court can order interest to be paid on a judgment debt from a date before the date of the judgment. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – ERROR IN JUDGMENT: Whether the non-application of Order 27 rule 8 of the Kano State High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1976 by the learned trial Judge amounted to an omission which could be corrected by himself or by another Judge sitting in his stead. |
| BESSOY LIMITED V. HONEY LEGON (NIG) LIMITED & ANOR. | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – CONSENT JUDGMENT: Methods by which an aggrieved litigant can challenge a consent judgment which he claims was obtained by fraud |
| BFI GROUP CORPORATION V. BUREAU OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – EQUITABLE REMEDY – SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE:- Meaning and essence of – When proper |
| BILL CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD. V. IMANI & SONS LTD SHELL TRUSTEES LTD (A JOINT VENTURE) | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Setting aside -Arbitral award – Setting aside of – Application for – Time limit therefor – Section 29 Arbitration and Conciliation Act. JUDGMENT AND ORDERS – ARBITRAL AWARDS:- Setting aside of Arbitral award – Application for – Time limit therefor – Section 29 Arbitration and Conciliation Act – Effect |
| BIMT VENTURES LIMITED V. LINPAK NIGERIA LIMITED | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – CONSEQUENTIAL ORDERS: What constitutes a consequential order |
| BISIMILLAHI V. YAGBA-EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Declaratory relief – principles guiding the courts in granting same. |
| BONIFACE ISICHEI V. INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION (INEC) | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – DECLARATORY JUDGMENT: Effect of a declaratory Judgment |
| BOOTHIA MARITIME INC. V. FAREAST MERCANTILE CO. LTD | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Appealable decision – Passing remark in judgment appealed against – Whether appealable. |
| BORNU HOLDING AND CO. LTD AND OTHERS V. DIPCHARIMA AND OTHERS | JUDGMENT AND ORDERS:- Civil Action – Execution of order for payment of Judgment debt due to company – Judgment debt to be paid by realistic monthly instalments – How treated |
| BRENDAN IWUCHUKWU V. DAMIAN ANYANWU | JUDGMENT & ORDER – Trial de novo – Order of – When necessary to make – When unnecessary. |
| BRIGGS V. BRIGGS | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Retrial order – Principles guiding the making of. |
| BRIGGS V. THE CHIEF LANDS OFFICER OF RIVERS STATE OF NIGERIA AND ORS. | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Consequential order – Meaning of. |
| BROAD BANK OF NIGERIA LIMITED V. MRS. MARY ODJEMU | JUDGMENT – Consequential order – meaning and effect of. JUDGMENT – Validity of – when judgment is competent and when not competent. |
| BUBA V. THE STATE | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Error in judgment – When sufficient to upset judgment – When not sufficient. |
| BUHARI V. OBASANJO | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Decision of court – Where wrong – Duty on appellate court with respect thereto. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Obiterdictum – Pronouncement of court – When constitutes – Effect. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Order of court – Presidential election – Cancellation or nullification of – When permissible. |
| BURAIMOH OLORIODE & ORS. V. SIMEON OYEBI & ORS. | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – STRIKING OUT ORDER: Proper order a court should make where it has no jurisdiction to adjudicate upon a matter |
| C. C. B. (NIG.) PLC. V. A. G., ANAMBRA STATE | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Interlocutory Order – Leave to appeal – Time for filing and hearing application – Section 25(2) Court Appeal Act 1976 considered. |
| CALISTUS NWANJOKU V. ALEXANDER MBONU & ORS | JUDGMENT AND ORDERS:- Order for Mareva Injunction – Defendants assets secured by plaintiff – Duty of party to mitigate damages – Where order is later declared void – Whether party who obtain order is liable in damages for detinue |
| CARDOSO V. DANIEL | JUDGMENT AND ORDERS:- Judgment – Reasons for judgment, absence of – Effect – Claim dismissed on preliminary issue of res judicata – Issue of previous judgment as res judicata disposed of by order for retrial on merits. |
| CARL ZEISS STIFTUNG V RAYNER & KEELER LTD. AND OTHERS (NO. 3) | JUDGMENT AND ORDERS:- Striking out – Interlocutory summons by defendants to stay proceedings on ground that plaintiff’s solicitors acting without authority – House of Lords affirming decision that plaintiff’s solicitors acting with plaintiff’s authority JUDGMENT AND ORDERS – ESTOPPEL:- Decisions of foreign courts on trade mark matters relied upon by plaintiff as creating an estoppel – Other foreign judgments relied on by defendants as creating “counter-estoppel” – Whether reasoned judgments or formal records to be considered for purposes of estoppel – Whether interlocutory judgments capable of creating an estoppel – Whether plaintiff privy to plaintiff’s solicitors in defendants’ summons to stay proceedings – Judge’s discretion to strike out matters res judicatae – R.S.C., Ord. 18, r. 19. |
| CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA V. MRS AGNES M. IGWILLO | JUDGMENT:- proper order to make when there is a case of wrongful termination of an employment with statutory flavor – Death of plaintiff in a case for wrongful dismissal – Need to substitute plaintiff and vary order/claim at appellate level – When order of lower court can be varied even though affirmed |
| CHIEF AMADI DIKE-OGU & ORS. V. OWHONDA FRANK AMADI & ORS. | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – INTERLOCUTORY INJUNCTION: Purport of an order of interlocutory injunction granted pending the determination of the substantive suit |
| CHIEF BRIGHT ONYEMEH & ANOR V. MRS. GRACE IWUEZE & ANOR | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – STYLE OF WRITING JUDGMENT: Minimum or recommended standard on the stages to be adopted or followed in reaching or arriving at a fair judgment or decision – Need for the trial judge to begin by considering the evidence led by the plaintiff, so as to see whether, the plaintiff has led sufficient and credible evidence on all material issues required of him to prove his case – where the court finds that the evidence is not sufficient as to prove or establish the claim – when plaintiff is adjudged not to have made out a prima facie case – whether the trial court does not need to consider the case of the defendant at all |
| CHIEF EVANS IHESI V. BARRISTER KENNETH ARINZE & ANOR. | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – DECISION OF A COURT: What determines the decision of a court |
| CHIEF GREAT O. OGBORU & ANOR V. DR. E. E. UDUAGHAN & ORS. | JUDGMENT AND ORDER- Essential attributes of a good and complete judgment – Need for court to give reasons for its judgment- effect of judgment given without jurisdiction |
| CHIEF GREAT OVEDJE OGBORU & ANOR V. DR. EMMANUEL EWETAN UDUAGHAN & ORS. | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – REASON FOR THE JUDGMENT: The need for a court or tribunal to always give reasons for its judgment |
| CHIEF H.I.S. IDISI V. CAPTAIN SHULGIN OLEKSANDR | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Judgment or order of a court of competent jurisdiction – need not to deprive a litigant of the fruit thereof. |
| CHIEF HARRISON IYALA AND 2 ORS V. CHIEF AARON F.D. OFFO AND OTHERS | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Order of non-suit – When the Court will make an order of non-suit. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Order of non-suit – Whether an order of non-suit will be granted to a party who fails to prove title to ownership of land. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Order of retrial -When an order of retrial is inappropriate. |
| CHIEF J. D. UKPONG & ORS V. THE TRAD. RULERS COUNCIL | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – ORDER OF DISMISSAL: Reasons why a court may dismiss a suit |
| CHIEF JOSEPH AKINBINU AKINNAWO V. CHIEF LISADOKO JOHN OROTUSIN | JUDGMENT AND ORDER:- Inelegantly drafted order – Whether equivalent to order which meaning is obfuscated and thus misleading |
| CHIEF KALU IGWE & ORS V. CHIEF OKUWA KALU & ORS | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – JUDGMENT: When the court would set aside its judgment |
| CHIEF M. O. OLATUNJI V. OWENA BANK (PLC) & ANOR. | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – EFFECTIVE DATE OF JUDGEMENT: When Judgment/Order takes effects JUDGMENT AND ORDER – STAY OF EXECUTION OF JUDGMENT: What a party seeking stay must do |
| CHIEF OLAIDE ONASANYA & ORS. V. CHIEF KOLAWOLE SODARA & ORS. | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – when an order of retrial can be properly made |
| CHIEF S. I. AGU V. GENERAL OIL LIMITED | JUDGMENT – DAMAGES – AWARD OF DAMAGES: Double compensation in award of damages – Propriety thereof |
| CHIEF SUNDAY N.A. UZOR (Suing by his Attorney, Mr. Solomon Iwebuzor) V. DELTA FREEZE NIGERIA LTD & ORS | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – DECISION OF COURT- what it must be based on |
| CHIKA NWOMEH V. STATE | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – STYLE OF WRITING JUDGMENT: Essential elements – Difference between a valid judgment and a good judgment- Style of writing – Duty of a trial judge at the stage of writing a judgment and making findings and decisions, to appraise the evidence on each side of the divide, and gives the evidence on each side the probative value it deserves before arriving at a just conclusion of the case – Duty of trial judge to determine which of the relevant evidence to believe, whether they are contradicted or not because he had the singular advantage of listening and watching the demeanour of the witnesses – Need for a written court judgment to be a proper judgment representing a fair and just verdict on the case litigated by two or more contending parties |
| CHRISTIAN NWOKEDI V. UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – FINAL DECISION: General nature and purpose of a final decision JUDGMENT AND ORDER – INTERLOCUTORY AND FINAL DECISION: Distinction between an interlocutory and a final decision JUDGMENT AND ORDER – INTERLOCUTORY DECISION: General nature and purpose of an interlocutory decision |
| CHRISTOPHER N. TANKO V. GARDUGA N. NONGHA | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – STYLE IN WRITING JUDGMENT: Whether there is a standard format in writing judgments |
| CHRISTOPHER ONJEWU V. KOGI STATE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY & ORS. | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – NATURE OF A JUDGMENT/RULING: Whether a judgment or ruling of a competent court ought to be illusory |
| CHUNGWOM KIM V. THE STATE | JUDGMENT AND ORDERS:- A trial judge using the words “murdered”, “a saddist” ‘premeditated killing” and “vendetta” in a culpable homicide judgment before considering the defences of an accused person – Propriety of – Court coming to a decision in a criminal case without considering the defence(s) of an accused person – Effect of |
| COMPAGNIE GENERALE DE GEOPHYSIQUE (NIGLT) CGG NIG LTD V. MOSES AMINU | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – SETTING ASIDE: where service of processes is not effected on a party, who is supposed to be served, before a Court makes an order against him – duty to set such order aside – common law and constitutional basis for same |
| CONOIL PLC. V. VITOL S. A. | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – ENFORCEMENT OF FOREIGN JUDGMENT: Ground upon which a foreign judgment would be registered against a person |
| CPC & ORS V. MALLAM ISA YUGUDA & ORS | JUDGMENT- what a valid judgment must demonstrate |
| DADI V. GARBA | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Delivery of judgment – Judgment of the Court of Appeal -Absence of one of the Justices when delivered –Whether makes such judgment a nullity. |
| DALE POWER SYSTEMS PLC V. WITT & BUSCH LIMITED | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Enforcement of foreign judgment JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Foreign judgments – circumstances when foreign courts would be deemed to have had jurisdictions under section 6(2) of the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Foreign judgment – defendant who voluntarily submitted to the jurisdiction of a foreign court as provided in section 6(2)(a) of the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act – whether can contend that the foreign court had no jurisdiction. |
| DALFAM NIGERIA LIMITED V. OKAKU INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Decision of trial Judge – when based on speculation – duty of appellate court to discountenance same. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Judgment of court – duty of court not to grant relief not sought by parties before it. |
| DALGO INVESTMENT & TRUST LTD V. JENHILL INDUSTRIAL SERVICES LTD | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Sheriffs and Civil Process Act Cap. 407 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990, section 109 – how interpreted – court of any state where judgment is registered – whether empowered to stay the execution of judgment obtained in the court of another state. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Sheriffs and Civil Process Act Cap 407, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria sections 105(2), 109 (1) and (2)– need to interpret the sections harmoniously to appreciate the limits of the jurisdiction of a foreign court with respect to a judgment registered in that court. |
| DANIEL TAYAR TRANS ENT. NIG. CO. LTD. V. ALHAJI LIADI BUSARI & ANOR | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – CONSENT JUDGMENT: Nature and Concept of consent judgment |
| DANMOLA V. THE ADVISER ON LANDS | JUDGMENT AND FRAUD:-Obtained by fraud -Whether can beset aside. JUDGMENT:- Obtained by Perjury – Whether can be set aside. |
| DAVID ITAUMA V. FRIDAY JACKSON AKPE-IME | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – PREVIOUS JUDGEMENT: Purpose of admitting previous judgments |
| DAVID KUMBUL V. DAVID UMEH | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – SETTING ASIDE:- Error or mistake in the judgment of a court – Whether will lead to a judgment being reversed or set aside – Error leading to miscarriage of justice without which a different decision would have been arrived at – Duty of appellate court thereto |
| DEDUWA AND OTHERS V. OKORODUDU AND OTHERS | JUDGMENT AND ORDERS:- Rival claimants in land matter – interlocutory judgments and orders – Allegation of bias and Issue of denial of fair trial. |
| DELE V. ADELALU | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Declaration of title – Plaintiffs proprietary interest proved but not enough to attract a declaration of title – Proper order to make. |
| DEN NORSKE BANK ASA V. ANTONATOS AND ANOTHER | JUDGMENT AND ORDERS – MAREVA:- Pre-trial or post-judgment relief – Mareva injunction – Plaintiff suspecting breach of order and applying to cross-examine defendant – Whether cross-examination should be allowed – Whether defendant entitled to rely on privilege against self-incrimination. |
| DENNIS AKOMA & ANOR V. OBI OSENWOKWU & ORS | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – TIME FOR DELIVERY OF JUDGMENT: Whether the Appellant has a duty to show how the delay in delivery of judgment has affected the perception, appreciation and evaluation of the evidence by the judge or justices as the case may be |
| DIAMOND BANK LIMITED V. GENERAL SECURITIES AND FINANCE COMPANY LTD | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – FOREIGN JUDGMENTS: Whether foreign judgments must meet certain conditions before they can be executed in Nigeria |
| DIAMOND BANK LTD. V. PARTNERSHIP INVESTMENT CO. LTD & ANOR | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – MISTAKE IN JUDGMENT: Whether every mistake or error in judgment will vitiate the judgment |
| DINGSE V. REGISTERED TRUSTEES OF CHURCH OF CHRIST IN THE SUDAN | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Order of court – need to obey same strictly – when not complied with – effect of. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Order of court to appoint new trustees by a church – court not expressly dissolving the existing board of trustees – implication of. |
| DODO DABO V. ALHAJI IKIRA ABDULLAHI | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Finding of fact by lower court- Where not challenged on appeal -How treated of. |
| DOMINIC EDE & ANOR V. NWAGBARA NWODO MBA & ORS | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – ORDER OF DISMISSAL: Whether an order of dismissal given by a court is valid where there is an application for extension of time within which to file a brief |
| DORTMUND COMPANY LIMITED & ANOR V. MR. ABUGU ELIAS | JUDGMENT AND ORDERS:– STAY OF EXECUTION:- Guiding principles – Relevant considerations |
| DR. ADEWUNMI ADEYEMI-BERO V. LSDPC & ANOR | JUDGMENT AND ORDERS:- responsibility of parting seeking court’s indulgence to depart from its previous decision – whether a court can set-aside its own judgment |
| DR. DARU & ORS V. BARRISTER IBRAHIM AMINU UMAR | JUDGMENT:- Judgment given by court without jurisdiction – Duty of appellate court to set same aside |
| DR. IME SAMPSON UMANAH V. OBONG (ARC.) VICTOR ATTAH & ORS | JUDGMENT AND ORDER:- Where there is majority judgment and minority judgment in a case – which one of the two is the judgment of the court |
| DR. KWAZEME OFONDU V. S.E. NIWEIGHA | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Consequential order – Where appeal allowed – Duty on appeal court to make consequential orders – Where power to do so derived by Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. |
| DR. OLADIPO MAJA V. MR. COSTA SAMOURIS | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Summary Judgment: When court will consider only statement of claim before entering judgment in favour of the Plaintiff |
| DR. TAIWO OLORUNTOBA-OJU & ORS. V. PROFESSOR SHUAIB O. ABDUL-RAHEEM & ORS. | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – CONCURRENT JUDGMENT: Whether concurrent judgment forms part of lead judgment |
| DR. TOSIN AJAYI V. PRINCE (MRS.) OLAJUMOKE ADEBIYI & ORS | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – PERVERSE JUDGMENTS: Whether the supreme court will allow concurrent judgments of two lower court which appear to occasion a miscarriage of justice against the evidence adduced |
| DUMEZ NIGERIA LIMITED V. PETER NWAKHOBA & ORS | “JUDGMENT”: Meaning of the word “judgment” |
| EKPUK V. OKON | JUDGEMENT AND ORDER – Issue of jurisdiction – whether can be raised at anytime – whether required to be properly raised before court can entertain it. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Consequential order – meaning of – whether it can grant a fresh and unclaimed or unproven relief. |
| ELEAZOR OBIOHA V. INNOCENT IBERO & ANOR | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – FINAL JUDGMENT:- Is there a constitutional provision for the review of the judgment of the supreme court? JUDGMENT AND ORDER – FINAL JUDGMENT:- Finality of judgments and orders from the supreme court. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – ALTERATION OF JUDGMENT:- Exceptions to the general rule that the court has no power to alter or vary a judgment or order after its delivery. |
| ELIAS V. ALHAJI SULEIMON | |
| EMEKA NWANA V. FEDERAL CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY | JUDGMENT AND ORDERS:- Concurring Judgment and lead judgment form the ratio and have equal weight. |
| EMIRI V. IMIEYEH | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Judgment or order of trial High Court – Power of Court of Appeal to amend – Where derived – Scope of. |
| EMMANUEL ATUNGWU & ANOR V. ADA OCHEKWU | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – PRINCIPLE OF DEMAND AND REFUSAL:- Meaning – Whether usually a prerequisite before an order is made in favour of an applicant – Whether such an application usually engenders due exercise of discretion by a court JUDGMENT AND ORDER – SETTING ASIDE:- Application to set aside a decision of court in reliance on the provisions of section 294 (1) of the Constitution – Duty of the party asserting non-compliance to give satisfactory reasons why the non compliance with this provision has occasioned a miscarriage of justice – Effect of failure thereto |
| EMMANUEL OCHIBA V. THE STATE | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – SETTING ASIDE OF CONCURRENT JUDGMENT: Whether special grounds is required to set aside a judgment which had been concurrently affirmed by the lower courts |
| EMMANUEL T. AYENI and ORS V. WILLIAM ABIODUN SOWEMIMO | JUDGMENT:- Trial court giving wrong reason for a right decision – Role of appellate court thereto |
| EMUAKPOR V. UKAVBE | JUDGMENT AND ORDER:- Application by way of motion – Order granting extension of time within which to file statement of defence – Judgment in default of defence – How treated by appellate court |
| ENE V. CHIEF PAUL BASSEY ETIM | JUDGMENT AND ORDER:- Enforcement Of Judgment – Section 13 (1) of the Limitation Law cap. L14 Laws of cross River state of Nigeria, 2004 – Limitation of the period for actions founded on judgments – Effect |
| ENEKWE V. INTERNATIONAL MERCHANT BANK OF NIGERIA LTD | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Decision of appellate court – Basis of – Whether issues for determination or grounds of appeal. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Declaratory judgment – Nature and scope of- Discretionary nature oj’- How can be enforced. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Declaratory relief – Nature of – Whether can ground application of doctrine of lis pendens. |
| ENIGWE V. AKAIGWE | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Finding that there is “little or nothing to choose between the evidence of the parties” -Where made – Proper order to make. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Non-suit -Order of – When to make – When not to make. |
| EREKANURE V. STATE | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Re-trial order in criminal cases – When it will be made by appellate court – When it will not – Relevant considerations. |
| ETIM JEREMIAH AKPAN v THE REGISTERED TRUSTEES OF QUA IBOE CHURCH OF NIGERIA & ORS. | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – ESTOPPEL:- RES JUDICATA – Plea of – principles governing the application of plea – Effect of successful plea. |
| EWULU V. NWANKPU | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Writing of judgment at the trial court – Procedure to be followed. |
| EYO OKON EYO V. CHIEF SAMUEL OKON INYANG | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Pattern of writing a judgment. JUDGMENT AND ORDER – What constitutes a good judgment. |
| EZEAKABEKWE V. EMENIKE | JUDGMENT AND ORDER:- Application by way of motion – Order granting extension of time within which to file statement of defence – Judgment in default of defence – How treated by appellate court Judgment and Order – Reliefs – whether court can award a relief not claimed or more than claimed – p. 92 |
| EZEKIEL ADEDAYO V. ALHAJI YAKUBU BABALOLA AND ORS | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Decision of court – Finality of – Binding effect of. JUDICIAL PRECEDENT – Decision of court – Finality of- Binding effect of. |
| EZENWOSU V. NGONADI | JUDGMENT AND ORDER – Order of Court – Whether final or interlocutory – Relevant considerations for determining |
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