Aare Afe Babalola, OFR, CON, SAN President Emeritus and Founder Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria Abstract This paper examines the provisions of Section 84 of the Sheriffs and Civil Process Act which protects government from payment of judgment debt. It also examines the nature and effect of a court’s judgement as well as the various methods of enforcing courts’ judgements. The paper dwells extensively on garnishee order/proceedings. It...Read More
– Ngozi Alili Esq INTRODUCTION: THE WOOLF’S REFORMS The 26th day of April, 1999, frequently referred to as “Woolf’s Day”, saw the coming into force of the most far-reaching reforms to court procedure for one and a quarter decades. The “Woolf’s Reforms”, as they are colloquially known, affected not only cases that were commenced at the court after April 1999 but also existing cases at this date and the way...Read More
– NGOZI ALILI ESQ INTRODUCTION: The legal profession has a symbol or logo which is feminine in nature, polite in approach and strict in determination. She is the “lady of justice”. She is blind but holds a scale in her left hand and a sword in her right hand. A black piece of clothe runs across her eyes, with both ends tied at her back. Her symbolic blindness shields her...Read More
BY: KABO, SARINUS ETTOR . LL.B (HONS) BL, LL.M ABSTRACT Defences to criminal liability are not hanging in the air or abstract neither do they submit to the rules of morality and custom or traditions of men in the civilize society. Just like the dictates of our criminal jurisprudence provides that before our actions or omissions may constitute an offence such must be a violation of a written law, conversely...Read More
By: Fabamise Sesan INTRODUCTION Nigerian rules of recognition are based essentially on common law rules. Unsatisfied foreign judgements often give rise to problems of private international law. For it happens frequently that a plaintiff who has obtained a judgement in a country where the judgement debtor has insufficient or no property to satisfy the judgement may wish to levy execution on the debtor’s property in a foreign country where he...Read More
