3PLR – CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI
MADAM CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI IN THE
PROSTITUTION, ADULTERY, IMMORAL ACTS CASES CONNECTED TO NIGERIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN
CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW & POLICY REPORTS WITH SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVES
INDEX TO CASES ON PROSTITUTION, ADULTERY AND IMMORAL ACTS CONNECTED TO NIGERIAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN
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| ABDU KADIRI V THE QUEEN | Women and Murder – Adultery – Adulteress/wife and the killing of her lover by husband – Whether circumstances involved amounted to legal provocation – How treated |
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Divorce proceedings – Petition on ground of divorce – Where wife alleges adultery between husband and another woman – Proper practice and procedure towards making same a cross-respondent, a named party or claiming costs or damages against same – Rights of a woman named as an adulterer in divorce proceedings to be joined as a cross respondent – How exercised |
| ADEYINKA V OHURUOGU | Women and Divorce – Matrimonial proceedings – Divorce on ground of adultery of wife – Award of damages to husbands for adultery – Guiding principles thereof – Attitude of courts to loose and immoral women |
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Women and Justice Administration – Imputation of prostitution, adultery and being an ex-convict to a woman – Whether defamation actionable without proof of damage – Whether can be dismissed by Court as mere abuse due to judicial notice taken of common societal abuse pattern |
| AKINYEMI v. AKINYEMI | Women/Children and Divorce – Petition for divorce on ground of adultery – How proved – Test for ‘proof beyond reasonable doubt’ applicable to adultery – Familiarity and opportunity – Treatment by court thereof – Claim for custody – Relevant considerations |
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ALERI V THE QUEEN
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Women and Murder – Killing of a third party for adultery with wife of accused person – Serial seduction of wife and mockery of husband – Catching wife and paramour in adulterous act – Whether constitutes provocation for killing done subsequently with arrow – How considered |
| AOKO V FAGBEMI | Prosecution and conviction of a married woman for adultery – Whether an offence known under any written law |
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Wife-Killing – Wife confessing to being in love with another man who was ready to marry her – Whether being greatly provoked is the same thing as ‘sudden provocation’ required under the law to reduce offense of murder to manslaughter
Women and Customary law practices – Marriage under customary law – Wife’s desertion – Failure to repay dowry to husband – Whether entitles husband to enforced return of wife – Quarrel arising therefrom leading to murder of wife – How treated |
| BEDDER V DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS | Women and Murder/Prostitution – Killing of a prostitute for jeering and assaulting a sexually impotent man – Whether jeering and assault as described amounted to provocation |
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Family Law – Adultery and Marriage – Promiscuity and Prostitution by married persons – Action against third party for adultery with spouse – Husband suing third party for adultery with wife – Husband’s initial award of £50 reduced to ONE penny – Whether there is a distinction between adultery by virtue of seduction and adultery by virtue of prostitution or promiscuity – Attitude of Court thereto “The really important point, however, is this: if a wife gives herself indiscriminately to one man and another, and yet her husband does not take steps to divorce her but takes one action after another for damages for adultery, he cannot expect much in the way of damages, for it will mean that he is going in for making a profit out of her lewdness.” –Per Bairamian F.J. |
| BLUNT v BLUNT | Women and Divorce – Petition and cross-petition for dissolution of marriage with a child – Spouses both allege and admit to adultery – Relevant considerations – Attitude of courts |
| ELEIHE V QUEEN | Women and Murder – Murder motivated by alleged adultery between deceased and wife of accused person – Deceased and accused were friends and married with children – Effect of adultery on marriages, friendship, wellbeing of families, criminality and justice administration |
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Divorce Proceedings – Ground of adultery and cruelty – Where cruelty proved against woman but man shown to have indulged in bigamy subsequently and culpable delay – Interest of children of the marriage – Whether obligates court to exercise discretion in favour of dissolution of marriage as one irretrievable broken down |
| EREMENE V THE QUEEN | Women and Adultery – Murder by matchete – Married woman murdered by third party sex partner she kept with consent of her husband – Whether sexual relations with a fourth man and alleged theft of £15 by woman amount to provocation at law – Effect of sexual preferences/family practices on criminality |
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Divorce:- Legitimacy and custody of child – Child conceived after mother’s adulterous affair which was condoned by father who continued marital intercourse using contraceptives – Whether spousal understanding that child was illegitimate rebuts presumption of legitimacy for a child born during pendency of marriage |
| HOBBS V HOBBS AND COUSENS | Divorce on ground of wife’s adultery – Claim against third-party adulterer for costs including husband’s expenses to attend court – Attitude of courts thereto |
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