Boothia Maritime Inc. & Ors V. Fareast Mercantile Company Ltd. (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report ACHIKE, J.S.C. The plaintiff claims against the three defendants jointly and severally for the sum of N100,000.00, being special and general damages for the loss of and/or non-delivery by the defendants as common carriers and bailees for reward for…
Chima Ijioffor V. The State (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report AKINTOLA OLUFEMI EJIWUNMI, J.S.C. At the conclusion of the hearing of this Appeal on the 25th of January 2001, this Appeal was dismissed by me. Thereafter I indicated that my reasons for its dismissal would be given on the 20th April 2001. The Appellant…
Chief Otonyeseigha Ololo V Nigerian Agip Oil Company Ltd & Anor (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report I.L. KUTIGI, J.S.C. At the Port-Harcourt Division of the Federal High Court, the Plaintiff sued the Defendants for the sum of N500,000.00 being special and general damages arising out of the Defendants’ negligence in causing the collision and…
Joseph Adebayo Osagunna V. The Military Governor Of Ekiti State & Ors (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report OGUNDARE, J.S.C. Following the death on 21st October, 2000 of Joseph Adebayo Osagunna, the plaintiff/appellant, the applicants herein brought this application praying this Court for an order that the applicants be substituted for the named appellant now…
First Bank Of Nigeria Plc V. May Medical Clinics & Diagnostic Centre Limited & Anor (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report BELGORE, J.S.C. This is an appeal against the judgment of Court of Appeal in an interlocutory matter, in the suit originating at High Court of Kaduna State presided over by Donli, J. The plaintiffs,…
Raymond S. Dongtoe V. Civil Service Commission, Plateau State (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report KARIBI-WHYTE, J. S.C The appeal in this case is again one of the now familiar cases in which the aggrieved resorts to the procedure for seeking relief under the fundamental rights provisions of the Constitution for wrongs where the breach…
Rev. Hyde Onuaguluchi V. Mr. Ben Collins Ndu & Ors (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report UWAIFO, J.S.C. The appellant contested election to the Senate as a candidate of the All Peoples Party (APP) in Enugu West Senatorial District in February, 1999. The other candidates were Mr. Ben Collins Ndu, a candidate of the Peoples…
Mrs. Florence Omotayo Labode V. Dr.godfrey Otubu & Anor (2001) 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 was the plaintiff in a suit brought in the High Court of Lagos State, sitting in Lagos; while the respondents were…
Daniel Bassil & Anor V. Chief Lasisi Fajebe & Anor (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report AYOOLA, J.S.C By the time this matter reached this court the main question has been narrowed down to a short one; namely, whether judgment entered for the respondents on their claim for damages for trespass and injunction can be…
Medical And Dental Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal V. Dr. John Emewulu Nicholas Okonkwo (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report AYOOLA, J.S.C. Of the several issues raised by this appeal the central issue is whether a medical practitioner is guilty of infamous conduct when in defence to the patient’s religious objection to blood transfusion, he failed either…