Constitutional Law (401)
HELD:
"According to the Supreme Court in the case of OLUGBENGA DANIEL VS. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA (2014) 8 NWLR (PT. 1410) PAGE 570 AT 576, there are certain basic criteria and attributes to gauge whether a trial is fair or not and they are:
HELD:
"There is a plethora of authorities of this Court on the effect of a breach of the right to fair hearing.
HELD:
"With regard to the written address, filed in argument of opposition to the application and in aid of the counter-affidavit, Order 33 Rules 1 and 4 of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2018, to which neither the lower Court nor the parties referred (but which continuously winks at all of us) provides thus:
HELD:
"... Counsel having been given the opportunity to address the Court cannot complain when they flung out the opportunity.
HELD:
"A hearing can only be fair when all parties to the dispute are given a hearing or an opportunity of a hearing.
HELD:
HELD:
"The attributes of fair hearing were succinctly enumerated by the Supreme Court, per Nnaemeka-Agu, JSC, inKotoye v CBN (1989) LPELR-1707 (SC) at page 32-33, thus: