Nigeria: Trials & Appeals & Compensation

In the United Kingdom (UK), the Arbitration Act 2025 (the UK Act), which received Royal Assent on 24 February 2025 and came into force on 1 August 2025, introduced refined amendments to the Arbitration Act 1996 (the 1996 Act).

Business cessation, whether temporary or permanent, represents a critical point in a company's life cycle, often carrying significant legal and tax consequences

The definition of the word "duress" was brilliantly defined by Ekpe JCA in Calabar Central Co-operative Thrift & Credit Society & 2 Ors v Bassey Ebong Ekpo (2001) 17 NWLR (Pt. 743) 649 at 675 as follows:

No doubt, objections raised to the admissibility of confessional statements pose one of the greatest challenges to criminal trials as it slows down the pace of the proceedings when there is a trial within trial.

Since the enactment of the Third Alteration Act of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, which elevated the National Industrial Court of Nigeria to a superior court of record, there have been a lot of controversies as to the nature and scope of the constitutional right of appeal from decisions of the NICN.

Recently, the Court of Appeal ("CA") delivered its decision ("Decision") in the case of Central Bank of Nigeria v. Adani Mega System Limited (Appeal No. CA/ABJ/CV/1300/2023) (the "Appeal").

On 16th July 2024, the Court of Appeal sitting at Ibadan in Appeal No: CA/IB/469/2022 delivered a pivotal judgment that can significantly alter the Nigerian corporate jurisprudence as it relates to the status of Non-Executive Directors...

In a landmark decision delivered on 7 February 2025, in Appeal No. SC/255/2007: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala v. Gani Fawehinmi & Ors., the Supreme Court ruled that mere status as a taxpayer does not, in itself...

In a landmark decision delivered on 22 November 2024, the Supreme Court nullified the National Lottery Act 2005 (‘NLA'), which established the National Lottery Regulatory Commission...