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HELD:
"bearing in mind that the Court below hears appeals by way of rehearing and is accordingly entitled to make any orders which the trial Court ought to have made as provided for in Section 15 of the Court of Appeal Act.
HELD:
"In the case of Obi vs. INEC (2007) 11 NWLR (Pt.1046) 565 at 639 this Court per Adeyemi JSC held that the purpose of Section 15 of the Court of Appeal Act is to obviate delayed justice and that the conditionalities required before the exercise of those powers include the following, namely:
HELD:
"I must straightway state that there is nothing irregular in the procedure adopted by the Court below, I say so because a Court is entitled to raise an issue suo motu and take a decision on it, without asking parties to address it, where they fail to take into consideration, a statute or when it relates to the Court's own jurisdiction.
HELD:
"I can see that the weight of the argument of learned counsel for the appellants hinges strongly on Order 45 Rule 5(1) and (2) of the Anambra State High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2006.
HELD:
"The law is well settled that the jurisdiction of a Court or Tribunal is donated by the claim before the Court.
HELD:
"The holding of Court proceedings during annual vacation is regulated by Order 42 Rules 4, 5 and 6 of the High Court of Katsina State (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2017 which provide thus: