Stare Decisis (84)
HELD:
"It is rudimentary law that this Court is bound by its previous decisions based on the doctrine of stare decisis.
HELD:
"This appeal illustrates the fundamental importance of the principle of stare decisis in our jurisprudence.
HELD:
"...I hasten to restate that cases are only authorities for what they decided.
HELD:
"Wherefore the only option before this Court in the circumstances is merely to follow the precedents already set by this Court in those cases decided on similar facts based on the hallowed principle that similar matters should be treated alike and so make for predictable outcome.
HELD:
"This is the doctrine of 'stare decisis et non quieta movere' or judicial precedent.
HELD:
"Under the doctrine of stare decisis, lower courts are bound by the theory of precedent.
HELD:
"The doctrine of judicial precedent otherwise known as stare decisis is not alien to our jurisprudence.
HELD:
"The doctrine of judicial precedent (otherwise called stare decisis) requires all subordinate courts to follow decisions of superior courts even where these decisions are obviously wrong having been based upon a false premise; this is the foundation on which the consistency of our judicial decision is based:
HELD:
"This court is the highest and final court of appeal in Nigeria.
HELD:
"In Chukwuka & Ors. v. Ezulike & Ors. (supra), this court, in a similar scenario, dismissed a similar application and held that it was an abuse of court process and that the decision to dismiss the appeal for want of brief of argument was a final decision on the merit and as such, this court was functus officio.