Civil Procedure and Practice (794)
HELD:
"The letters "pp" when placed before a name on a document, are an abbreviation of the Latin term "per procurationem" or "per pro."
HELD:
"Sections 2(1) and 24 of the Legal Practitioners Act provides as follows:
HELD:
"In MAILANTARKI V. TONGO (supra), a case the trial Court referred to but wrongly distinguished from the facts in the instant case, this Court in following its decision in DALHATU V. TURAKI restated the principle thus:-
HELD:
"It is to be noted that under our adversarial legal system, one of the most firmly ingrained principles of law is that the Courts do not exercise their jurisdiction in vain.
HELD:
"The trial Court having been given particulars of the decisions of the Court of Appeal grounded the plea of estoppel and in fact, intimated of the outcome of the appeal against same to this Honourable Court, was entitled to take judicial notice of that judgment.
HELD:
"On the effect of failure to serve hearing notice, the Apex Court held in NUT TARABA STATE & ORS v. HABU & ORS (2018) LPELR - 44057 (SC) PER KEKERE-EKUN, J.S.C AT Pp. 15-16, thus:
HELD:
"There is no record to show that after the purported service on the 1st Respondent of originating process through Crown Courier Service, subsequent processes, particularly hearing notices were served on the 1st Respondent in notification of subsequent hearing dates.
"In applying for the joinder of these parties and for substituted service on them, the Appellants on their own accord, nominated DHL Courier service, a well-known registered courier service provider, as the means of delivery of the originating processes on them at their respective head offices in Lagos, Nigeria.
HELD:
"The basic principle governing the granting of leave to amend is for the purpose of determining the real issue(s) in controversy between the parties.