See Also:

• PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – Originating Process – Effect of an Incompetent Originating Process

  "Once an originating process is invalid and incompetent on any cognisable ground in law, it would deprive a Court of law of competence and jurisdiction to entertain and adjudicate over…

• PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – Undefended List Procedure – The Procedure under the Undefended List

  "It is pertinent to note that even in the Undefended List Procedure, where a claimant seeks to recover a liquidated sum, the defendant must be put on notice and is…

• CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Identification Parade – Circumstances Where an Identification Parade Will Be Useful and Necessary

  "It is trite that visual identification parade becomes necessary where the victim's first acquaintance with the accused person was during the commission of the crime, where the victim was confronted…

• CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE – Offence of Kidnapping – Ingredients of the Offence of Kidnapping

  "My lords, in order for the prosecution to succeed in account of kidnapping, it has to prove the following facts beyond reasonable doubt: a) That the Victim was seized and…

• PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE: Cross-Examination - Object of Cross-Examination

  “The forensic tool of cross-examination was deliberately, woven into our adjectival law of evidence as an adversarial mechanism for ‘devastating’ the case put forward on the other side. Oforlete v. State (2000)…