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COURT OF APPEAL COMES TO THE RESCUE OF A BANK WHICH ERRONEOUSLY CREDITED ITS DEBTOR WITH N20M

The Story Appeal No. CA/L/1196/2016 – Keystone Bank Limited v. Office Devices Limited & Anor. The Respondents, Office Devices Ltd. & Mr Boni Obieze, owed the Appellant, Keystone Bank Ltd., the sum of about N18, 600, 000. 00 (Eighteen Million Six Hundred Thousand Naira). While the debt remained unpaid, the Bank erroneously credited the Respondents’ […]

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July 25, 2020
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Case Law

Sacking your lawyer: Costly mistake you should never make.

Nature of lawyer-client relationship Lawyer-client relationship is a relationship that has at least three natures. Firstly, the relationship is contractual in that it is a product of contract whereby a client seeks the services of a lawyer in exchange for payment of professional fees. Thus, the contractual relationship is governed by established principles of Contract […]

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November 27, 2019
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Law News Opinions

S*x Toy Senator toiling with the Law.

We have seen members of the National Assembly engage in physical combat at several occasions. While such incidents appear to give us some hindsight about the characters we elect into the legislative arm of Government, we readily excuse them on the premise that legislative violence is within contemplation and is a usual occurrence across the […]

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July 3, 2019
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Law News Legal Explainer

Blessing Okoro: Legal Liabilities of the “Homeless” CEO

Background – Nigerian Relationship Blogger, Blessing Okoro (also known as Blessing CEO), is the founder of a dating site known as Break or Make Up. The brief description as found on her site reads: “Blessing Nkiruka Okoro is a domestic violence survivor, relationship expert, Youtuber and owner of relationship blog Break or Make up. Her passion […]

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May 29, 2019
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Case Law

A bank that pays the proceeds of a cheque to a wrong person is liable for conversion.

Heritage Bank Ltd. v. Bentworth Finance Nig. Ltd. [2018] 9 NWLR (Pt. 1625) 420 at 435 paras G-H, per Eko, JSC: “The point must be made as well that a seemingly endless chain of authorities have made it a settled principle of law that bankers who collect cheques and pay to those not entitled to […]

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July 17, 2018
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