Judgment and Order (536)
HELD:
"The appellant stigmatized the finding/decision of the lower Court as perverse. Since perversion is the cynosure of the point, it is germane to x-ray its purports for easy appreciation.
HELD:
"The law is settled that a Court has an inherent jurisdiction to set aside its own judgment or order obtained by means of misrepresentation and concealment of facts in the nature of fraud, or where the Court is devoid of jurisdiction.
HELD:
"Consequential orders are made to give effect to a decision of a Court. Such orders are usually made consequent upon a decision being made in order to give effect to the judgment.
HELD:
"The law still remains that the trial High Court (Adefope-Okojie, J) having on 9th July, 2013 delivered its final judgment was functus officio and was totally bereft of any competence or authority in law to revisit it and render the said judgment nugatory and unenforceable in disobedience of Sections 241 and 287(3) of the Constitution.
HELD:
"It is not in any doubt that on 9th July, 2013, the trial High Court (Adefope-Okejie, J) entered judgment against the 1st Respondent in the sum of N232,915,644.00 in favour of the Appellants.
HELD:
"I shall highlight on the first issue formulated by my learned brother in the lead judgment, thusly "whether the judgment of the Court below was validly delivered in accordance with the constitutional provisions."