Josiah Kayode Owodunni V. Registered Trustees Of Celestial Church Of Christ & Ors. (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report OGUNDARE, J.S.C. This appeal raises once again the vexed question of locus standi which, in spite of a plethora of decided cases on it, still remains a Gordian knot. A number of judicial pronouncements have been…

Benjamin Obasuyi & Anor V. Business Ventures Ltd (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report M. A. BELGORE, J.S.C. The appellants were defendants at the trial High Court of former Bendel State. The case now on appeal from Court of Appeal, Benin Division arose out of an accident involving a trailer tipper of Mercedes Benz make…

Brawal Shipping (Nigeria) Limited. V. F. I. Onwadike Co. Limited & Anor (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report UWAIFO, J.S.C. The appellant is the 1st defendant against whom, along with the 2nd defendant, a claim of N2,160,820.00 is made in this suit which was instituted in the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt. The statement of…

Sanusi Brothers (Nigeria) Limited V. Cotia Commercio Exportacao E Importacao S. A. (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report WALI, J.S.C. The respondent as plaintiff filed in the High Court of Justice, in the Lagos Judicial Division a specially indorsed writ wherein he claimed as follows:- ‘The Plaintiff’s claim as indorsed on the writ reads as…

Akunwata Joe Oguejiofor Anyaegbunam V. Pastor Okwudili Osaka & Ors (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report KATSINA-ALU, J.S.C. This appeal is from a judgment of the Court of Appeal, Enugu Division, delivered on 22 April 1993. The dispute is in respect of a parcel of land at Nkisi Ogbeozala inland Town Onitsha of which the…

Dyktrade Ltd. V. Omnia (Nig.) Ltd. (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report BELGORE, J.S.C. The appellant was the plaintiff in the Federal High Court and the appellant at the Court of Appeal. The claim in the Federal High Court was against the defendant (now respondent as it was in Court of Appeal) as follows:- An…

Alhaji Taofeek Alao V. African Continental Bank Ltd (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report KARIBI-WHYTE, J.S.C. This is a ruling on the application seeking an order to set aside ex debito justitiae the judgment of this court, delivered on the 27th February, 1998 dismissing his appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal dated…

Joseph Idowu V. The State (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report OGUNDARE, J.S.C This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal (Ibadan Division) affirming the conviction for murder and sentence of death passed on the appellant by the High Court of Ogun State (Ijebu-Ode Judicial Division). The appellant had stood trial…

Mike Momah V. Vab Petroleum Inc. (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report UWAIS, C.J.N. This is an interlocutory appeal from the decision of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division. The appellant herein is judgment debtor to a judgment delivered by the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, (Commercial Court) London, United Kingdom, while the…

University Press Ltd.V. I.K.martins (Nig.) Ltd. (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report ACHIKE, J.S.C.  The respondent, as plaintiff, instituted this action on 5/4/90 at the High Court, Onitsha, claiming the outstanding debt of N22,100.00 in respect of reams of newsprint paper sold and delivered to the appellant, as defendant, together with interest. The defendant entered…