Stare Decisis (84)
HELD:
"It was held in AK Ltd vs NNPC (2005) 11 NWLR (Pt.937) 563 @ 589 H-A, per Edozie, Jsc:
HELD:
"...The judgment in the case of Mr. Goddy Ezia-Nochies vs Chief Frans Igwe relied on supra, is the judgment of the Apex Court.
HELD:
"...The Texas American decision in this case is not worthy of any persuasive effect whatsoever, as it does not relate to the same or similar situation.
HELD:
"The practice is no longer shrouded in confusion on our relationship with foreign judgments.
HELD:
"... The application of any principles of law laid down, enunciated, stated and restated (repeatedly) in earlier or previous cases, depends largely on the peculiar facts and circumstances that unveiled and are disclosed in later cases without which such principles cannot be applied in a vacuum.
HELD:
"The law is quite well settled that a decision is only an authority for what it actually decided.
HELD:
"I am not unmindful of the argument of the Appellants that lower Court was wrong in taking judicial notice of Supreme Court's judgments.
HELD:
"On the circumstances in which the doctrine of stare decisis would arise, His Lordship Rhodes-Vivour, JSC in Emeka Vs Okadigbo (2012) 18 NWLR (Pt.1331) 55 @ 96 H; (2012) LPELR-9338 (SC) held: