Showing posts with label practice and procedure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label practice and procedure. Show all posts

Wednesday, 12 November 2014

THE UNDEFENDED LIST PROCEDURE: AN UNENDING DEBATE ON AN EXPARTE APPLICATION TO PLACE A SUIT THEREUNDER OR OTHERWISE


The Undefended list procedure recently caught my attention while reading through the pages of some new decisions of the apex court, the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Just like other well known procedural aspects of law that refuse to get buried in old reports, the mode of application for an Undefended list is still very much a contention, as it continues to appear over the years. Now in order not to mistaken

Saturday, 22 March 2014

UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS & ANOR V. AIGORO (1985) 16 (Pt 1) NSCC 88



CASE REVIEW
UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS & ANOR V. AIGORO (1985) 16 (Pt 1) NSCC 88
K. K. Eleja & Co.
By A. O. Mohammad Esq.
15th March, 2014

“The criteria by which the exercise of a statutory discretion must be judged have been defined in many authoritative cases, and it is well settled that if the discretion has been exercised bona fide, uninfluenced by irrelevant considerations and not arbitrarily or illegally no court is entitled to interfere even if the court had the discretion been theirs might have exercised it otherwise”
Mobil Oil