Judgements Categories: Court of Appeal

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [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] AKINBOLADE DELE V THE STATE THE COURT OF APPEAL OF NIGERIA ON FRIDAY, THE 6TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2015 CA/AK/128C/2013 3PLR/2015/8 (CA)     OTHER CITATIONS (2015) LPELR-24296(CA)   BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS MOJEED ADEKUNLE, JCA MOHAMMED AMBI-USI DANJUMA, JCA JAMES SHEHU ABIRIYI   REPRESENTATION Isiaka Abiola Olagunju Esq.  – For Appellant AND O. Adeyemi – Tuki D.P.P. Ministry Of Justice, Ondo State – For Respondent   CONNECTED AREA(S) OF PRACTICE […]

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [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] VANDERPUYE V. VANDERPUYE WEST AFRICAN COURT OF APPEAL, GOLD COAST ACCRA, 8TH MARCH, 1951  CITATIONS [1956] VIII WACA 164   BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS: BLACKALL, P. LEWEY, J.A. COUSSEY, J.   BETWEEN MARY VANDERPUYE, ANNA VANDERPUYE, PETER JACOB VANDERPUYE, JACOB NEE VANDERPUYE, JOHN’VANDERPUYE, ISAAC VANDERPUYE, EMILY VANDERPUYE, BETTY VANDERPUYE, MARIA VANDERPUYE, JACOB VANDERPUYE, HELEN VANDERPUYE, DINA VANDERPUYE, ABRAHAM VANDERPUYE, JUANA VANDERPUYE, JERSEY NA OYOE VANDERPUYE, JACOB NEE VANDERPUYE AND RICHARD VANDERPUYE, […]

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [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] WARNER V. SAMPSON AND ANOTHER COURT OF APPEAL   [1955 W. No. 1371.] 1958 Nov. 19, 20, 24, 25 Dec. 18 LN-e-LR/1955/19 (CA)   OTHER CITATIONS BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS LORD DENNING, HODSON AND ORMEROD L.JJ.   REPRESENTATION G. Scarman Q.C. and Christopher Gibbons for the landlord. H. Hames and P. S. A. Rossdale (neither of whom were the counsel who signed the original defence of the second defendant) for the […]

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [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] ONYIBOR ANIEKWE & ANOR. V. MRS. MARIA NWEKE IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF NIGERIA ON THURSDAY, THE 14TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2013 CA/E/311/2009 CWLR (2013) 34     OTHER CITATIONS (2013) LPELR-20386(CA) LN-e-LR/2013/148   _________________________ CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW:- Widow – Women and interests in Property – Customary law challenges – Right of a widow over interests in land/property enjoyed by her deceased husband – Customary law which disentitles […]

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [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] BROWN V. RAPHAEL COURT OF APPEAL 2, 3 OCTOBER 1957       OTHER CITATIONS [1958] 2 ALL E.R. 79 BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS LORD EVERSHED MR ROMER AND ORMEROD LJJ   REPRESENTATION I J Lindner QC and T M Eastham  – for the defendant C Montgomery White QC and E I Goulding – for the plaintiff Solicitors: Oscar Mason & Co (for the defendant) Charles H Wright & Brown (for […]

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [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] BERNARD V. JOSEPHS [COURT OF APPEAL] [1978 B. NO. 525] LN-e-LR/1982/13 (CA) 1982 MARCH 4, 5; 30   OTHER CITATIONS [1982] CH. 391   BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS LORD DENNING M.R., GRIFFITHS AND KERR L.JJ.   REPRESENTATION John Speed for the defendant. William Panton for the plaintiff. Solicitors: Moss Beachley; Simpson Millar.   MAIN ISSUES FAMILY LAW:– Married or engaged couples and real estate – Joint purchase of home – Nature […]

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [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] BERNARD V. JOSEPHS [COURT OF APPEAL] [1982] CH. 391 [1978 B. NO. 525] 1982 MARCH 4, 5; 30 CWLR (1982) 3   OTHER CITATIONS LN-e-LR/1982/13 (CA) _____________________ CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW: 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 […]

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [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] BEN C. EMODI & ORS V. MRS. PATRICIA C. EMODI & ORS IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF NIGERIA ON THURSDAY, THE 14TH DAY OF MARCH, 2013 CA/E/168/2007 CWLR (2013) 4     OTHER CITATIONS (2013) LPELR-21221(CA) LN-e-LR/2013/22   ____________________________ CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW: Children and Divorce – Administration of Estate and succession to property – Effect of judicial decree of divorce based on impotence of husband on subsequent claims […]

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [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] ANOWO V. ANOWO COURT OF APPEAL (ENUGU DIVISION) WEDNESDAY, 10TH JULY, 1991 CA/E/40/91 3PLR/1991/45 (CA)     OTHER CITATIONS BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS ALOYSIUS IYORGYER KATSINA-ALU, J.C.A. (Presided) GEORGE ADESOLA OGUNTADE, J.C.A. (Read the Leading Judgment) SAMSON ODEMWINGIE UWAIFO, J.C.A.   BETWEEN MRS. HELEN USI ANOWO AND MRS. MONICA ANOWO MISS NNEKA ANOWO   REPRESENTATION Chief A. O. Mogboh, S.A.N. (with him, Miss N. Ukoha) – for the Appellant U. Echeozo […]

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [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] MADAM JARAWU ADELEKE V. LIADI AJADI ASERIFA COURT OF APPEAL (IBADAN DIVISION) THURSDAY, 6TH MARCH, 1986. SUIT NO. FCA/I/122/83 OTHER CITATIONS (1986) 3 NWLR (PT.30) 575 LN-e-LR/1985/3 (SC) _____________________ CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW: Women and Real Estate ­– Interest in land – Defence of _____________________   BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS: JOHN HEZEKIAH OMOLOLU-THOMAS, O.F.R., J.C.A. (Presided and Read the Lead Judgment) IBRAHIM KOLAPO SULU-GAMBARI, J.C.A. SYLVESTER UMARU ONU, J.C.A.   REPRESENTATION […]

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [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] AMATA V. MODEKWE WEST AFRICAN COURT OF APPEAL, NIGERIA LAGOS, 5TH OCTOBER,  CITATIONS 1954 (1954) 14 WACA 580   BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS: FOSTER-SUTTON, P. DE COMARMOND, AG. C. J. NIGERIA AND COUSSEY, J.A   APPEAL IN FOUR CONSOLIDATED SUITS UDEKWU AMATA FOR HIMSELF AND FOR THE PEOPLE OF ISU-OBIELI QUARTER OF ENUGU-AGIDI V. UDOGU MODEKWE, NWUBA MORAH, AND OKEKE ADAKA FOR THEMSELVES AND ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF AWKA […]

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [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] PROFESSOR DORA AKUNYILI & ANOR V. DR. CHRIS NWABUEZE NGIGE & ANOR IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF NIGERIA ON MONDAY, THE 26TH DAY OF MARCH, 2012 CA/E/EPT/8/2012 CWLR (2012) 13 OTHER CITATIONS LN-e-LR/2012/86 (CA)  (2012) LPELR-CA/E/EPT/8/2012   ______________________ CHIDREN AND WOMEN LAW: Women in politics – Challenging an adverse election outcome – Relevant considerations ______________________   BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS AYOBODE OLUJIMI LOKULO-SODIPE, JCA ADAMU JAURO, JCA SAMUEL CHUKWUDUMEBI, JCA […]