Locus Standi (92)
HELD:
"This court has consistently held that in the determination of locus standi, the plaintiff's Statement of Claim should be the only process that should receive the attention of the court.
HELD:
"the decision of Kawu, J.S.C., in the case of Dada v. Ogunsanya (1992) 3 NWLR (pt.232) 754 is illuminating.
HELD:
"Locus standi denotes the legal capacity to institute proceedings in court. It is a threshold issue that goes to the root of the suit.
HELD:
"When a suit is filed in Court, it is usually the plaintiff who is questioned as to whether he is a proper person, that is to say a plaintiff and indeed a party in a suit must be a natural or legal person.
HELD:
"I take the further view that the trial Court equally erred in its conclusion that the "the description of the plaintiffs as Registered Trustees is cosmetic and is not fatal to the locus standi of the plaintiff..." (page 584 of the record).
HELD:
"Where an association of persons is unincorporated, it does not have the legal status of a juristic person.
HELD:
"The law is trite that the issue of locus standi affects the jurisdiction of the Court because if there is no locus standi to bring the action before the Court, the Court will have no jurisdiction to entertain the matter, see EMEZI V. OSUAGWU (2005) 12 NWLR (PT. 939) 340.
HELD:
"It is hornbook law that the issue of locus standi is linked to the issue of jurisdiction in the sense that where a Claimant is found not to have locus standi, the Court's jurisdiction will be ousted.
HELD:
"The term locus standi denotes the legal capacity to institute proceedings in a Court of Law.
HELD:
"It is pertinent to iterate that the fact that a person may not succeed in an action does not have anything to do with whether or not they have the standing to sue: