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INTERPRETATION OF STATUTES – Principles governing interpretation of statutes:

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INTERPRETATION OF STATUTES – The Mischief Rule – Applicability of mischief rule:

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LAND LAW – Revocation of Right of occupancy – Whether Statutory right of occupancy can be revoked without the consent of the holder:

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LAND LAW – Proof of title to land – Burden of the claimant to prove his title – Whether the defendant shares in the burden of proof when he did not file a counter claim

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INTERPRETATION OF STATUTES – Need to confine to ordinary meaning which the words of the statute can reasonably bear:

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LAND LAW – Identity of land – Whether proof of identity of land is required where the identity of land in dispute is known to the parties:

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INTERPRETATION OF STATUTES – Cardinal rules of construction of written instruments – Need to give statutes grammatical and ordinary sense of the words used:

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LAND LAW – Identity of land – Survey plan – When both parties know the quantity and quality of the land in dispute between them – Needlessness for a survey plan:

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DOCUMENTS – EVIDENCE – “Proper custody” of a document – Meaning of proper custody:

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TORT – DEFAMATION – Evolution of the law of criminal defamation and its abolition in some countries:

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LAND LAW – Conditional grant or allocation – Nature of interest vested in the grantee after fulfillment of conditions of grant:

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LAND LAW – Declaration of title to land – Whether a plaintiff can succeed on the weakness of the defendant’s case in an action for declaration of title

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TORT – TORT CLAIM – Definition of tort as a civil wrong; classifications of civil wrong:

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TORT – TORT CLAIM – Nature and purpose of a tort claim; differences between a tort and a crime:

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CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – CRIMINAL PROSECUTION – Whether a First Information Report upon which an accused was charged for the offence of criminal defamation can be declared unconstitutional and same quashed at the arraignment stage:

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CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – CRIMINAL PROSECUTION – Purpose of criminal law; how conviction for a crime is obtained:

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – CONSTITUTIONAL VALIDITY OF LEGISLATION – Constitutional validity of Sections 391-395 of the Penal Code Law, FCT creating the offence of criminal defamation:

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION – Whether a charge for the offence of criminal defamation as contained in a First Information Report brought under Sections 391-395 of the Penal Code Law, Abuja constitutes a violation of the constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of expression:

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LAND LAW – Acquisition of land – Whether the government has the right to compulsorily acquire property – Whether the payment of compensation upon compulsory acquisition of land is mandatory:

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JUSTICE – Sentiments – Whether sentiments has a place in judicial deliberations:

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