Appeals (2099)
HELD:
"The Appellant herein was a Respondent before the lower Court and his only duty before that Court was to defend the judgment appealed against.
HELD:
"The Records of Appeal in this matter was transmitted to this Court by the Registrar of the lower Court. Order 8 Rule 1 of the Court of Appeal Rules, 2021, which is in pari materia with Order 8 Rule 1 of the Court of Appeal Rules, 2016 provides as follows:
HELD:
"Section 241 (1) (a) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, stipulates:
HELD:
"a ground of appeal can arise from the commission or omission by the Court in either refusing to do what it ought to do or doing what it ought not to do; that the said ground is rooted in the decision of the lower Court.
HELD:
"The essence of grounds of appeal is to give sufficient notice to the adverse party of the nature of the appellant's complaint, which such adverse party will be confronted with in Court.
HELD:
"It is hornbook law that grounds of appeal are not formulated in nubibus.
HELD:
"Let me iterate that the Appellant did not file a reply brief; the implication is a concession by the Appellant of the issues raised in the preliminary objection.
HELD:
"In due fidelity to the injunction of the law, I will attend to the issues in their sequential order of presentation.