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POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, 3PLR, LAW REPORTS [PDF copy of this judgment can be sent to your email for N300 only. Just order through lawnigeria@gmail.com and info@lawnigeria.com or text 07067102097]   IGWE V. UKWEJE   PRIVY COUNCIL 11TH OCTOBER, 1960. P.C. NO.5 OF 1958 3PLR/1960/46 (PC)   OTHER CITATIONS   BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS LORD COHEN (Presided) LORD KEITH OF AVONHOLM L.M.D. DE SILVA (Read the Judgment of the Court)   BETWEEN ANOJE IGWE & ORS. (For themselves and on behalf of their people of Umunahu Uratta) AND OPARA UKWEJE & ORS. (For themselves and as representing their people of Umuofa […]

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, 3PLR, LAW REPORTS [PDF copy of this judgment can be sent to your email for N300 only. Just order through lawnigeria@gmail.com and info@lawnigeria.com or text 07067102097] HOMES V. NEWMAN.   [CHANCERY DIVISION] 1931 MARCH 5, 6. 1929. H. 4148.   OTHER CITATIONS [1931] 2 CH. 112 BEFORE: LORD TOMLIN   REPRESENTATION MANNING K.C. and A. C. NESBITT for the plaintiffs. Sir HERBERT CUNLIFFE K.C. and H. J. H. MACKAY for the defendant Solicitors: HANCOCK & WILLIS, for R. & C. B. MASEFIELD, LEDBURY; SMYTHE & BRETTELL, for S. SIRRELL, BROMYARD   MAIN ISSUES ESTATE ADMINISTRATION:- Action […]

HARMER V. JUMBIL (NIGERIA) TIN AREAS LIMITED. COURT OF APPEAL [1919. H. 2398.] 1920 July 6, 7, 8 [1921] 200 1 Ch. 1920 Oct. 21, 22, 25, Nov. 12 3PLR/1921/1  (CA-E)   CITATIONS BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS: LORD STERNDALE M.R. WARRINGTON and YOUNGER L.JJ.   REPRESENTATION Gover K.C. and P. F. S. Stokes for the plaintiff. Courthope Wilson K.C. and F. K. Archer for the defendants. Solicitor for plaintiff: Edwin Cobbing. Solicitors for defendants: Poole & Robinson.   MAIN ISSUES REAL ESTATE/LAND LAW:- Lease – Explosives Magazine – Packing Shed – Licences – Buildings within prohibited Distances – Grant – Derogation – […]

GEORGE WIMPEY AND CO. LTD V. SOHN AND ANOTHER   COURT OF APPEAL 1960 G. NO. 2094 1965 NOV. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 DEC. 4 3PLR/1965/33  (SC)   BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS: HARMAN DIPLOCK RUSSELL L.JJ.   MAIN ISSUES COMMERCIAL LAW REAL ESTATE Vendor and Purchaser – Defective title – Right to rescind contract – Contract for sale of hotel and garden – Title to garden to be established by statutory declaration as to 20 years’ undisputed possession – Vendor’s failure to prove – Whether purchaser obliged to accept alternative means of proving title.   Easement – Prescription – Adverse […]

LONRHO PLC AND OTHERS V. FAYED AND ORS   COURT OF APPEAL CIVIL DIVISION (NO 5) [1994] VOLUME 1 ALL. E.R 188 15–17, 30 JUNE, 1, 22 JULY 1993 3PLR/1993/68  (CA-E)   BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS DILLON, STUART-SMITH AND EVANS LJJ   MAIN ISSUES TORTS; Other Torts Tort – Conspiracy – Ingredients of tort – Damages – Actual pecuniary loss – Whether damages for injury to reputation or business reputation recoverable when defamation not alleged – Whether damages for injury to business reputation recoverable as a form of injury to property – Whether damages for injury to feelings recoverable when defamation […]