Sasegbon on Election Petitions. Volume 1. Part I
- Publisher:
- D.S.C Publications Online
- Publication date:
- 2012-09-08
Description:
SASEGBON ON ELECTION PETITIONS is an overview of the law governing elections in Nigeria as expressed or applied by the appellate Courts in the context of specific Court cases. It is intended to provide those with and those without a legal background with an informative survey of the judicial treatment of the major issues in the area of elections and to serve as a helpful reference tool and starting point for attorneys who wish to conduct research on a specific election-related legal issue.
Numerous principles and statements of law, which have stood the test of time and which have formed the foundation of Nigeria’s ever-developing legal system, are presented in the publication.
Numerous principles and statements of law, which have stood the test of time and which have formed the foundation of Nigeria’s ever-developing legal system, are presented in the publication.
Address for service in election petition
Address of counsel/purpose of address
Appeal
- Table of contents
- Abandoned brief
- Absence of counsel
- Admissibility of documents
- Admission of inadmissible evidence
- Admissions in pleadings
- Allegation of bias
- Amendment of pleadings
- Amendment of records
- Appeal
- Appeal against final judgment
- Appeal against weight of evidence
- Appeals generally
- Appeals in election petition
- Appellant seeking to set aside verdict of lower court
- Appellant's right to prosecute appeal
- Appellants motion
- Appellate court's
- Appellate court's attitude to evaluation of evidence
- Appellate jurisdiction
- Application brought under a wrong order
- Application for amendment
- Application for leave to appeal
- Applications at the court of appeal
- Appraisal of evidence by trial court
- Argument in an appeal
- Ascription of probative value to evidence by trial court
- Asking for the indulgence of court
- Attitude of appellate court to findings of fact by trial court
- Brief of argument
- Case made by a party at trial court
- Competency of appeal
- Complaint on appeal
- Concurrent findings of fact
- Conditions for appeal
- Conduct of case in the court of appea
- Consequential orders
- Consideration of appeal
- Constitutional right of appeal
- Court of appeal
- Cross appeal
- Decision appealed against
- Decision of an appellate court
- Decision of lower courts
- Decisions of court of appeal
- Decisions of trial courts based on erroneous premises
- Depature from the rules
- Determination of an appeal
- Discontinuance of action on appeal
- Dismissal of appeal
- Distintion between grounds of law and grounds of fact
- Doctrine of election of remedies
- Duty of appellate court
- Duty on counsel
- Election petition appeals
- Entering of appeal
- Error in judgment appealed against
- Evaluation of evidence by trial court
- Exercise of discretion by court of appeal
- Exercise of discretion by lower court
- Exercise of judicial discretion
- Exhibits during appeal
- Extension of time for entering appeal
- Extension of time to file and serve
- Failure to appeal within time
- Failure to cross appeal against a specific finding
- Failure to file list of authorities
- Filing appeal improperly
- Filing appeal out of time
- Filing of appeal
- Filing of briefs
- Final and interlocutory decisions
- Findings of fact of trial court
- Findings by trial court on credibility of witnesses
- Findings of fact and evaluation of evidence
- Findings of fact by appeal court
- Findings of fact by lower courts
- Findings of fact by trial court
Final sections