Whether a public document tendered and marked rejected in the same course of proceedings can still be re-tendered and admitted into evidence
REGENCY (OVERSEAS) CO. LTD V. ARIORI & ORS (2019) LPELR-47281(CA) "The main issue in controversy is one dealing with whether a public document tendered and marked rejected in the same course of proceedings can still be re-tendered and admitted into evidence. It is the general position of the law that a document tendered and marked rejected is no longer admissible in evidence. See the cases of EBONYI STATE UNIVERSITY & ORS v ETENG (2012) LPELR - 19973 (CA); ADDISON UNITED NIG LTD v LION OF AFRICA INSURANCE LTD (2011) ALL FWLR (PT 594) 130; WASSAH & ORS v KARA & ORS (2014) LPELR - 24212 (SC). Indeed there is no dispute as to the fact that the proper foundation and certification necessary for the admissibility of the document in question was not complied with by the Respondents in the tendering of the document and the Appellant rightly objected to its admissibility which the Court then marked as rejected. The Respondents then went back to put its house in order