JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION AND NIGERIAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN THROUGH THE CASES – 2

ATO V. THE STATE

Women and Crime – Conduct between quarrelling women/housewives which can entitle the court to bound them over so as to keep the peace – Women and Justice Administration – Woman spitting on another during a quarrel – Whether can be ground for conviction for assault without looking at all the circumstances of the case – Duty of court to look at the whole circumstances of the quarrel

ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF ABIA STATE AND 35 ORS V ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION

Children/Women and Governance – Public Finances – Public Debt repayment – Implications for governance and the wellbeing of women, children and unborn generations

ATTORNEY-GENERAL V PRINCE ERNEST AUGUSTUS OF HANOVER

Women and Citizenship – Lineage and naturalization – statutory basis for same – implication and relevance for generations

AWOBOKUN V ADEYEMI

Women and Justice Administration – Wife killing – Mother of accused person as star witness – Testimony of Mother of accused who was first at the scene – Tragedy following attendance by threesome at marriage ceremony of relative – Plea of insanity – Treatment by court

AZUKEMU V. NNAJUBA

Women and Justice Administration – Widows and fatal Accident proceedings – Claim in respect of deceased/husband by wife – Assessment of damages and liability to pay same – How treated

BADEJO V. FEDERAL MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

Children/Women and Justice Administration/Education/Human Rights – Girl-child and quota system in Nigeria – Denial of access TO publicly sponsored educational opportunity on the basis of the circumstances of birth – Whether discriminatory and unconstitutional – How treated

BAGOGO GODWIN V.  THE STATE

Women and Justice administration – Marriage and Crimes of Jealousy – Remarriage – Former husband of woman killed by current husband on suspicion of having sexual designs on wife – Whether jealous rage based on suspicion of deceased’s intention to have carnal relation with wife amounts to provocation to nullify a conviction for premeditated murder

BALOGUN V. ALHAJI BUSARI AMUBIKAHUN

Children and Justice Administration – Will and Estate – Children and Education – Education and Material Security of children born out of wedlock

BARKONO V C.O.P.

Widows and Justice Administration – Fatal accident – Negligence – action brought by widow of a passenger killed in an omnibus accident – How treated

BELLINGER (FC) V. BELLINGER

Women/Children and Justice administration – Trans-sexual persons – Sex change – Implications  for policy and law reforms affecting marriage, custody of children, housing and residential security of tenure, social security benefits, citizenship and immigration, taxation, pensions, inheritance, life insurance policies, criminal law (bigamy), education, child care, occupational qualifications, criminal law (gender-specific offences), prison regulations, sport, the needs of decency, birth certificates, etc. – How treated in United Kingdom

BENJAMIN KNOWLES

Women and substance/drug abuse – Justice administration – Death arising from a moment of mutual drunkenness – Wife-killing via a revolver shot by husband – Dying declaration of wife designed to protect husband and testimony of husband asserting accident – Where upstaged by conflicting circumstantial evidence – Duty of court thereto to consider both murder and manslaughter – Effect of considering murder alone

BERNARD V.  JOSEPHS

Women and Real Estate – Joint ownership of property with husband or fiancé – Nature of interests created regardless of whose name the property was conveyed – Legal effect in the event of a separation – Women and Justice Administration – Attitude of courts to joint ownership of property between unmarried and married couples living together or to application for sale/division of property bought with intention to be used as matrimonial home – Children and Justice Administration – Attitude of courts to application for sale property used as family house due to divorce

BOCK V BOCK

Divorce proceedings – Wife, who had obtained a civil aid certificate under the Legal Aid and Advice Act, 1949 to present a petition for divorce on the ground of the husband’s cruelty – Where the petition was dismissed – Taxation of the wife’s bill of costs under Sch 3 to that Act – Whether the registrar is entitled to refuse to allow the wife any expenses for attending court, on the ground that the trial judge had disbelieved her evidence, and that since she must have known that what she said in evidence was false her conduct was wanton and vexatious

BOMS V.  THE STATE

Women and Justice Administration – Woman/Mother standing trial for murder of adopted son (a soldier) by stabbing – Plea of self-defence – Claim that woman stabbed son for trying to choke her to death – How treated

BOR V. THE QUEEN

Women and Customary Law/Justice Administration – Killing of prospective bride – Suspicions of infidelity and humiliation– Failure to recover bride price – Expectations between couple who by native law and custom are not yet man and wife as the forms of marriage had not been completed – Whether there is a position under which the law affords a protection to a husband who killed his wife or her paramour in such circumstances

BRAIDE V. THE STATE

Women and Justice Administration, Crime and Healthcare – Wife Killing – Assault causing neck injuries – Initial well-meant but misguided attempt by husband to self-treat wife using local remedies resulting in further harm – Death after admission in hospital – Whether circumstances disclosed murder or manslaughter – How treated

BUGAN V THE QUEEN

Women and Justice administration – Unresolved dispute over land – Brutal murder of a woman for ‘failing’ to prevent a third party interfering with killer’s land – Whether justifies killing

CHIKA NWOMEH V. THE STATE

Women and Customary law – Right of a woman to be Head of a family under customary law – Women and Justice

DANGARI V. THE STATE

Wife-Killing – Women and Justice administration – Husband prosecuted for culpable homicide of wife on the farm – Defence of accident that wife died from blow of a broken branch on the head – How treated – Effect of inadequate investigation and prosecution

DANMOLE V. DAWODU

Women/Children and Succession/Custom/Justice administration – Off-springs of polygamous marriage – Customary practices relating to distribution of deceased’s estate – Idi-Igi and Ori-Ojori Yoruba customary law practices relating to succession – Essentials of – Need to ensure that preference is given to succession practice which within the peculiar facts of the case would not bring about an outcome that is repugnant to equity, fairness and good conscience

DASI V. THE STATE

Women and Justice Administration/Human Rights – Malicious prosecution – Woman falsely accused of theft so as secure the aid of the Police towards bringing her back to her husband against her wish – Relevant considerations – Attitude of courts thereof

DAWA V THE STATE

Women/Children and Succession/Custom/Justice Administration – Off-springs of polygamous marriage – Customary practices relating to distribution of deceased’s estate – Idi-Igi and Ori-Ojori Yoruba customary law practices relating to succession – Essentials of – Need to ensure that preference is given to succession practice which within the peculiar facts of the case would not bring about an outcome that is repugnant to equity, fairness and good conscience

DELE FAGORIOLA V. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

Women in Public Leadership – Need to act without ill-will and bias – Need to uphold the tenets of justice through adherence to the rules of service and natural justice – Attitude of court to failure thereto

EGBE NKANU V. THE STATE

Women and Security/Murder – Murder/Head-severance of 60 year old grandmother by her neighbor – Women and Justice Administration – Attempt to set up the defence of insanity and intoxication as defence for gruesome murder- How treated

EJEKA V. THE STATE

Young people and Education – Yong people and Justice administration – Boarding students in Federal Government Colleges who take their bath in streams – Murder arising from altercations on the way – Students as witnesses at consequent murder trial – Implications for justice administration and education infrastructure

EKPO AND ANOTHER V. THE STATE

Women and Justice Administration – Young girl supposedly gang-raped – Where victim subsequently recants and claims there was consent – Effect – Whether court can presume victim had been tampered with by assailants

EKPO V THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

Young persons and Justice administration – 18 year old offender awarded maximum sentence of 21 for uttering of counterfeit currencies – Propriety – Failure of counsel to appeal sentence – Effect – Prerogative of Mercy of President/Governor – Need to have recourse to same

Young persons and Justice administration – Principle of reformation of criminals and salvaging of young people from the direction of the crime to the path of rectitude – Need to be court’s paramount preoccupation in criminal proceedings

ELABANJO V. ALHAJA A. O TIJANI

Women and Justice administration – Illiterate women using Illiterate Protection rules to subvert justice – Attitude of court thereto – Women in Business – Dealings in land – Need to respect agreement as to conveyances

ELENDU V. INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION

Women in politics – Political Party primary for nomination into a federal legislative office – Relevant considerations

ESSIEN V. THE STATE

Succession to litigation by sons of deceased litigant – Relevant considerations

EZE V. THE STATE

Women and Security – Young woman kidnapped from her house by assailants and subsequently found dead – Children and Justice Administration – Evidence of a young person – Admissibility thereof in judicial proceedings

EZEKIEL ADEKUNLE V. THE STATE

Women and customary practices/healthcare/justice administration – Murder/Mob-killing of elderly sick woman who was banished from her family home on an account of protracted illness and allegation practising witchcraft – Assault of a young woman trying to evacuate on her back her very sick and starved mother accused of witchcraft – How treated

EZENNAH V ATTA

Women and Real Estate/Land Law – Women and Justice Administration – Defence of interest in real estate/land – Allegation of breach of agreement to marry – How proved or rebutted – Allegation of the existence of a resulting trust – Meaning and legal effects – How rebutted

FADAYOMI  V. SADIPE & ORS.

Women and Justice Administration – Joinder as a party to a suit without one’s consent – Whether person absolutely/constitutionally entitled to remove one’s name from any suit – Women and Estate Administration – Appointment as Executor/Executrix of a will – Application for probate – Use of Caveat to prevent probate of Will – Relevant considerations – Children/Mothers and Estate Management – Right of mother who is not an executor of a will to enter caveat against Executors so as to prevent probate and safeguard the interest of children

FAHM V. THE CHAIRMAN L.E.D.B

Children/Women and Customs/Human Rights/Justice Administration/Property Rights/Inheritance – Right to Dignity of the Human Person, Protection from Servitude and Right to property – Persons/Families designated as customary slaves/domestic helpers – whether or not a customary slave could be regarded as a member of his overlord’s household – Right of customary slaves/domestic helpers even after several generations of aligning with and living with a particular land holding family and enjoying rights over land – right to property or compensation for compulsory acquisition of property granted by overlord – Whether modern legal developments have not elevated the status of customary slaves to the position of equal partners with their overlord’s children – Implication for the distribution of monetary compensation for property acquired by government even where property had been given to customary law slaves for generations for their use

FALOBI V. FALOBI

Women and Justice Administration –Wife and children deserted by husband/father – Appropriate court proceedings and orders/reliefs – Women in Employment – Wage earning wives –Relevance for quantum of maintenance orders courts are prepared to make against their spouses

FREGENE V. FREGENE

Women and justice administration – Women and divorce – Failure of women/respondent to file answer to the petition – Witnesses resident and domiciled in England – Whether entitles husband/petitioner to tender evidence of his witnesses in affidavit form to be read at the trial proper – How treated by court

GBILEVE V. ADDINGI

Children and Murder – Young People and Justice Administration – Murder of a two year old by a mentally troubled step-brother – Young person under 17 and capital offences – Whether entitled to have death sentence commuted to imprisonment at the pleasure of the Governor – Age of a person standing trial for crime – Need to determine same for conviction and sentencing purposes

GWANDU V. GWANDU N.A

Women and Justice Administration – Women as witnesses – Women and crime – Evidence of wife of co-accused person in murder proceedings – Whether corroboration for evidence of husband against co-accused

HAMMED A. TORIOLA AND ANOR.   V. MRS. OLUSHOLA WILLIAMS

Women and Real Estate/Land – Women and Inheritance – Defence of interest in real property – Intestacy and – Women and Justice Administration – Proof of title to land under native law and custom – Rights as an Administrator of an estate

HEWER V. BRYANT

Young people and Education – Young people and justice administration – Young people and custody – Vocational education in a farming education facility for a minor not academically proficient – A parent’s right of custody over child in an education or vocational training facility – Nature of – Parent’s right to his children in their law-suits without being guilty of the legal crime of maintaining quarrels – Persons entitled to sue as child’s next friend

Infants and custody of parent – Test to be applied – When to infer that infant is in the custody of a parent – Where the father or some other parent is or is not away from the infant for a period or periods – Where the parent allows the infant the freedom to do as he likes – Where someone else has temporarily been given the duty of the day-to-day control of the infant – Whether in all such cases the custody remains – Whether an essential characteristic of such custody is the right to control the infant’s life coupled with the capacity to exercise that control, whether arising from economic circumstances or otherwise

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