Judgements Categories: Supreme Court

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]     SAMUEL A. ADEWUSI V. THE QUEEN SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA F.S.C. 210/1963 1ST NOVEMBER, 1963. 3PLR/1963/13 (FSC)     BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS: SIR ADETOKUNBO ADEMOLA, C.J.N. (Presided and Read the Judgment of the Court) JOHN IDOWU CONRAD TAYLOR, J.S.C. SIR VAHE BAIRAMIAN, J.S.C.   MAIN ISSUES CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Criminal Code, 5.328 – Information for stealing thereunder – How framed. CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Criminal […]

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]     SIMEON FURA ADEPEHIN V THE QUEEN FEDERAL SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA 29TH JANUARY. 1959. F.S.C. 263/1958   BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS SIR ADETOKUNBO ADEMOLA, F.C.J. (Presided) MYLES JOHN ABBOTT, F.J. (Read the Judgment of the Court) LOUIS NWACHUKWU MBANEFO, F.J.   REPRESENTATION Applicant absent, not represented. E. A. ADEMOLA, C. C. – for the Respondent.   MAIN ISSUES CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE:- Murder – Proof of – Retraction of […]

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]   BAYO ADELUMOLA V. THE STATE  SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA 10TH MARCH, 1988. SUIT NO. SC 133/1986 CWLR (1988) 2   OTHER CITATIONS (1988) NWLR (Pt.73) 683 LN-e-LR/1988/3  (SC)     BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS   ESO,   J.S.C. NNAMANI, J.S.C. UWAIS, J.S.C. OPUTA, J.S.C. BELGORE, J.S.C.   REPRESENTATION O. Adeiala – for the Appellant A. Adeniji (Miss), Asst. D.P.P., Lagos State – for the Respondent   MAIN ISSUES CHILDREN AND WOMEN […]

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]   GABRIEL ADEGBESAN V. THE STATE SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA SUIT NO. SC 161/1985 3RD APRIL, 1986 OTHER CITATIONS (1986) 1 NSCC 457 759 LN-e-LR/1985/41 (SC)   BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS: OBASEKI, J.S.C. ANIAGOLU, J.S.C. KAZEEM, J.S.C. KAWU, J.S.C. OPUTA, J.S.C.   REPRESENTATION Chief A.M.O. Lekan Akande – for Appellant Mr. R.A. Bello, Asst. D.P.P., Ogun State – for Respondent   MAIN ISSUES CRIMINAL LAW:– Murder – Proof of – Defence […]

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]   ADEBIYI V THE STATE  IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA ON FRIDAY, THE 29TH DAY OF JANUARY, 2016 SC.483/2013 3PLR/2016/3 (SC)   OTHER CITATIONS (2016) LPELR-40008(SC)   BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS IBRAHIM TANKO MUHAMMAD, J.S.C MUHAMMAD SAIFULLAHI MUNTAKA-COOMASSIE, J.S.C OLABODE RHODES-VIVOUR, J.S.C CLARA BATA OGUNBIYI, J.S.C CHIMA CENTUS NWEZE, J.S.C   BETWEEN SEGUN ADEBIYI – Appellant(s) AND THE STATE – Respondent(s)   REPRESENTATION Ikenne Okoli – For Appellant. Olumuyiwa Obanewa […]

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] KHARIE ZAIDAN V. FATIMA KHALIL MOHSSEN SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA 16TH NOVEMBER, 1973 SUIT NO. SC 52/1973 CWLR (1973) 10   OTHER CITATIONS (1973) All N.L.R 740 LN-e-LR/1973/71 (SC) _____________________ CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW:- Women and Inheritance – Childless wife of deceased foreigner who died a Muslim– Rival right of wife and mother to inherit his estate in Nigeria – How treated _____________________   BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS:    ELIAS, C.J.N. […]

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] WARABI ALAO V. OLADEJO AJANI   SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA FRIDAY, 23RD JUNE, 1989 SC.25/1987 LN-e-LR/1989/62  (SC) CWLR (1989) 17   OTHER CITATIONS (1989) NWLR (Pt.113)1   ___________________________ CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW: ___________________________       BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS  KAYODE ESO. J.S.C. (Presided) MUHAMMADU LAWAL UWAIS,.J.S.C. ABDUL GANIYU OLA TUNJI AGBAJE, J.S.C. (Read the Lead Judgment) ABUBAKAR BASHIR WALl, J .S.C. EBENEZER BABASANYA CRAIG, J.S.C.   BETWEEN WARABI  ALAO YESUFU […]

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] SUNDAY UDOFIA V. THE STATE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA DECEMBER 7TH 1984 LN-e-LR/1984/51 (SC)   OTHER CITATIONS (1984) 12 SC 139 _____________________ CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW: Women and Crime – Wife who colluded with husband to ‘punish’ another man for making sexual advances on her – Death arising therefrom – Whether wife liable for husband’s killing of man – How treated – Women and Widowhood – Woman widowed […]

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] S.J. ADESEYE AND OTHERS V. S.F. TAIWO AND OTHERS FEDERAL SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA 15TH NOVEMBER, 1956 FSC 6/1956 CWLR (1957) 10   OTHER CITATIONS LN-e-LR/1956/69 (SC)     ___________________________ CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW: – Succession to property under Yoruba customary law – Right of children of deceased vis a vis claims of relatives – Whether can be affected by a past compromise arrangement not given effect to ___________________________   […]

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] OSAMWONYI V. OSAMWONYI SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA 6th October, 1972. SUIT NO. SC 295169. CWLR (1972) 19 OTHER CITATIONS LN-e-LR/1972/130 (SC) (1972) All N.L.R 792   _____________________ CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW: Women and Divorce – Women and Customary Law – Women and Education – Women and Justice Administration – Husband’s petition for divorce on ground of subsisting customary law marriage between wife and a third party – Whether receipt of […]

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] PETER E. NKAMA AND ANOR. V. OLUGHU UKA FEDERAL SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA F.S.C. 184/62 14TH JUNE, 1963. CWLR (1963) 20 OTHER CITATIONS LN-e-LR/1963/99  (FSC)   __________________________ CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW:- Women and Inheritance rights – Women and Customary law practices – Succession to land – Matrilineal and Patrilineal system – Where one is pleaded to operate to the exclusion of the other  – Need to prove same – Existence […]

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] JULIE NEZIANYA AND ANOR. V. ANTHONY OKAGBUE AND ORS. SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA F.S.C. 398/1962. 28TH NOVEMBER, 1963 CWLR (1963) 19 OTHER CITATIONS LN-e-LR/1963/97  (FSC)   __________________________ CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW: – A woman’s right over land under Onitsha customary law – Right of wife who left husband when he took another wife – Wife without male child – Right of children of the marriage __________________________   BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS: […]