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CIVIL PROCEDURE IN NIGERIA
The subject matter of civil proceduredeals with the body of law that sets out, the rules and standards that courts follow, when adjudicating civil law suits. This aspect of our law is of paramount importance to legal practitioners and law students in the Law School. Each State in Nigeria has its own High Court Rules,…
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A GUIDE TO THE LAW OF CONTEMPT OF COURT IN NIGERIA
There is little awareness of the law of Contempt of Court in Nigeria due to insufficient materials and publications on the subject. Public critisms of judgment of courts’ are a common phenomenon in the Nigeria legal space. Similarly, publications and writings on active judicial proceedings are a common practice. The question of contempt does not…
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PRACTICAL APPROACH TO LAND LAW IN NIGERIA
Land litigation is unarguably, an aspect of Nigerian Law, where indigenous writers initially exerted their dominance and preeminence. Perhaps, this trend is not unconnected with the dominant nature of farming in an undeveloped economy. In pre-colonial and post-colonial Nigeria, the economy was substantially agro-based, with subsistence farming as the preponderance occupation of the populace. However,…
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PRINCIPLES OF RECOVERY OF PREMISES IN NIGERIA THROUGH THE CASES
The bulk of civil cases in Magistrates’ Courts relate to recovery of premises proceedings and connected matters. Unfortunately, majority of decisions on these cases are not tested on appeal due to poverty resulting in inability to fund appeal processes or a sheer unwillingness on the part of litigants to appeal. A few of these cases…
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PRINCIPLES OF FORMULATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF GROUNDS OF APPEAL.
An Igbo adage says: “a cock that is taken to the house of a native doctor for the propitiation of the gods without the accompaniment of tubers of yam, kolanuts and a keg of palm wine, can never be accepted by the gods.” In a similar vein, a ground of facts filed at the Supreme…
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A GUIDE TO PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE OF CUSTOMARY COURTS IN NIGERIA
Customary Courts are uniquely positioned to administer cheap, simple, non-technical but substantial justice. These features make the Customary Courts Judicial System poor-friendly. A party may appear in person because the processes in Customary Courts are conceived to be simple and user friendly. Moreover, the technical rules and principles of English Law are inapplicable in Customary…
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A GUIDE TO APPELLATE PRACTICE AND BRIEF WRITING
There is no doubt that appellate proceedings constitute a substantial aspect of Nigeria Judicial process. In the last decade, many more Divisions of the Court of Appeal were established in some other states, thereby ensuring their accessibility to many more litigants. Similarly, many more states have established Customary Courts of Appeal as part of their…
