Courts (690)
HELD:
"...In addition, the issue of jurisdiction to entertain an appeal by this Court can be raised at the judgment stage by the Court without the need to call for address and proceed to decide it, being the final appellate Court in Nigeria.
HELD:
"The Appellant was charged, convicted and sentenced over two very serious offences which are not only illegal and unlawful but also immoral.
HELD:
"There is no gainsaying that Courts of law, which are equally Courts of equity, are enjoined ex debito justiciae to consider and pronounce on all issues properly placed before them.
HELD:
"Section 15 of the Court of Appeal Act, 2004, empowers this Court to rehear a case in whole or in part and make orders that a Court of first instance could have made in appropriate cases towards the attainment of substantial justice to the parties in an appeal before it.
HELD:
"The law is that a Court of law, particularly lower Court, has a statutory duty to consider and decide on all issues raised and submitted to it for determination.
HELD:
"A Judge has right in our adjectival law to use particular words or phrases, which in his opinion, are germane to his evaluation of the facts of the case.
HELD:
"Court is not permitted to formulate issues not raised in the pleadings.