LITIGATION IS FOUGHT ON PLEADINGS
It is trite that litigation, particularly election dispute litigation, is fought on pleadings. Parties swim…
It is trite that litigation, particularly election dispute litigation, is fought on pleadings. Parties swim…
As rightly submitted by the Petitioners, the reliefs in this Petition, which I have reproduced…
The requirements of pleadings in election petitions are primarily provided in Paragraph 4 of the…
I have carefully considered the submissions of the parties and the judicial authorities cited. It…
per Ogunwumiju, JCA (as he then was, now JSC), held in UDEAGHA & ANOR v…
✓ In BELGORE v AHMED (2013) 8 NWLR (Pt. 1355) 60 at 95 – 96,…
Pleadings are closed when parties join issues in a case. Where both the statement of…
The primary purpose of pleadings is to prepare the minds of the parties and the…
How now should the respondent have pleaded the invalidity of the transaction? In considering whether…
Once a party abandons his pleadings it is not the business of the court to…
In the case of Messrs. Lewis & Peat (N.R.I.) Ltd. v. Akhimien ( 1976) 7
Pleading is the life wire of the proceeding in our adversorial system of civil jurisprudence…
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