WHY YOU NEED TO DO YOUR CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY AND GOVERNOR’S CONSENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Category: Real Estate / Infrastructure

If a property owner (mistakenly or fraudulently) sells the same property to two (or more) different people at different times, the first person to register his...

IS A THUMB IMPRESSION (IN PLACE OF A SIGNATURE) ON A PROPERTY DOCUMENT VALID?

Category: Real Estate / Infrastructure

Where a party to a property transaction is unlettered (illiterate), visually impaired (blind) or has a challenge (medical or other condition) that makes...

Whether a public document tendered and marked rejected in the same course of proceedings can still be re-tendered and admitted into evidence

Category: Practice & Procedure

  REGENCY (OVERSEAS) CO. LTD V. ARIORI & ORS (2019) LPELR-47281(CA)  “The main issue in controversy is one dealing with whether a public...

Contract of Service / Contract for Service ??? – Factors to consider

Category: Labour & Employment

The Supreme Court of Nigeria in the case of SHENA SECURITY CO. LTD VS – AFROPAK (NIG) LID & 2 OTHERS (2008) LPELR 368/2002; (2008) 18 NWLR (pt.1118)...

Appellate Hearing: Tips to settle your nerves!

Category: Practice & Procedure

This is just a random post I felt should go out immediately. Perhaps I’ll edit in future, but right now, the tips should go out. More often than not,...

How Evidence of Correspondence is Proved

Category: Practice & Procedure

Practice Note:   How Evidence of Correspondence is proved:    SUIT NO. NICN/ABJ/144/2017 AYO OYARERO VS THE BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION  ...

Cross Examination is an art, but not a licence to ask any random questions

Category: Practice & Procedure

    Hi everyone! I only wished to make this post as a guide, a sort of warning while asking cross examination questions in court. More often than...

Can you serve hearing notice by electronic means?

Category: Uncategorized

COMPACT MANIFOLD & ENERGY SERVICES LTD v. PAZAN SERVICES NIG. LTD (2019) LPELR-49221(SC) Principle PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – HEARING NOTICE –...

Objection on Territorial Jurisdiction – What the Defendant must prove.

Category: Practice & Procedure

 The position of the law has always been that he who asserts must prove. The usual SAINT GOBAIN PAM S. A. v. INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANTS INCORPORATED (2015)...

Are processes attached to amended pleadings still valid in law?

Category: Practice & Procedure

 However, in the case of Gusau v. Comptroller General of Customs & Ors. 2014 LPELR-23367CA 18-19, the Court of Appeal held that processes...

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