Dispute Resolution Newsletter – 2024

IMPORTANT LEGAL DECISIONS

In 2023, Nigeria witnessed the handing over of the baton of power in the aftermath of the 2023 general elections, and specifically the Presidential election. With 2023 being an election year, there were many election petition cases, some of which have been concluded while others remain pending. We are hopeful there will be a drop in cases of this ilk as we look forward to the next general elections. The jurisprudence and the decisions rendered by the courts in these cases have mostly been consistent with the extant position of the law.

APPELLATE PRACTICE

Of note is the decision of the Supreme Court in P.D.P. v. Uche (2023) 9 NWLR (Pt. 1890) 523, delivered on the 6th of January 2023. In the lead Judgment of Agim, JSC, His Lordship considered the constitutionality of an established judicial practice, wherein the Court of Appeal steps into the shoes of the trial court and pronounces on the merits of matters which the trial court