EVIDENCE – JUDICIAL NOTICE – Whether a Court has the power to take judicial notice of all the laws, enactments, and any subsidiary legislations made there under in any part of Nigeria

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“In the instant case, there is no doubt that the trial Court, nay any Court of law for that matter, is duly cloaked with the power to take judicial notice of all the laws, enactments, and any subsidiary legislations made there under in any part of Nigeria. See Section 122 of the Evidence Act 2011 No. 18, which provides: 122. (1) No fact of which the Court shall take judicial notice under this Section needs to be proved. (2) The Court shall take judicial notice of- (a) all laws or enactments and any subsidiary legislation made under them having the force of law now or previously in force in any part of Nigeria; (b) all Public Acts or Laws passed or to be passed by the National Assembly or a State House of Assembly, as the case may be, and all subsidiary legislation made under them and all local and personal Acts or Laws directed by the National Assembly or a State House of Assembly to be judicially noticed.” Per IBRAHIM MOHAMMED MUSA SAULAWA, JSC in ADEGBANKE v. OJELABI & ORS (2021-LCER-40456-SC) (Pp 54 – 54 Paras A – F)

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