THE CASE OF SIFAX NIGERIA LTD VS MIGFO NIGERIA LTD: WAS THE COURT OF APPEAL LAYING DOWN THE PRECEDENT OF NOT FOLLOWING PRECEDENTS?

‘…Nobody knows, until a case has come to trial, what will emerge from all the “authorities”… Every lawyer is aware of points on which the authorities are conflicting and obscure, and as precedents multiply, so do the conflicts and obscurities’. Sir Carleton Kemp Allen (Case Law: An Unwarrantable Intervention (1935) 51 LQR 333).     […]