Jurisdiction (580)
HELD:
"The law is well settled that the jurisdiction of a Court or Tribunal is donated by the claim before the Court.
HELD:
"Section 19(1) of the Federal High Court Act provides:
HELD:
"The issue of jurisdiction, as has been held in numerous decisions of this Court, is fundamental to the adjudicatory powers of any Court.
HELD:
"The very intrinsic and extrinsic nature of the issue of jurisdiction in judicial proceedings of a Court of law and the fatal consequences on the part of a Court to entertain an action are held to be of considerable antiquity to be elementary in our judicial jurisprudence.
HELD:
"...This issue pertains to whether the trial Court was right when the Court assumed jurisdiction to entertain counts 4 and 5 in the Charge despite the fact that the prosecuting authority is not "a person aggrieved" as envisaged under Section 391 of the Penal Code Act.
HELD:
"The jurisdiction of the Federal High Court does not extend to tort which is still within the jurisdiction of the State High Court.
HELD:
"In UZOMA JNR & ORS V. EMEANA & ORS (2014) LPELR-22501(CA), the provisions of Sections 135, 136 and 138 of the Act were considered by this Court.
HELD:
"The primary source of the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court is Section 251(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) which provides thus: