LawPavilion Blog https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html The Nigerian Court of Appeal Upholds South African Choice of Court and Choice of Law Agreement The Nigerian Court of Appeal Upholds South African Choice of Court and Choice of Law Agreement Can a Defective Notice of Appeal Be Cured by Amendment? Whether the Consent of the Attorney General Is Required to Attach By Garnishee the Funds Held In the Custody of a Public Officer Whether the Offence of Unlawful Possession of Firearms is a Strict Liability Offence? Can a Survey Plan Stand Alone as Proof of Land Ownership? Freeze Now, Explain Never: Are Banks Abusing Their Power? Does Negotiation by Parties Stop Time from Running under Limitation Law? Time Within Which to File a Criminal Appeal to the Supreme Court Principles Governing the Grant of Maintenance Order in Matrimonial Causes Legal Conditions Foreign Authors Must Meet Before Enforcing Copyright How Should Courts Interpret the Terms of a Written Contract? Whether Court can Grant Perpetual Injunction Where the Title is Proved Whether the Exclusive Jurisdiction of the National Industrial Court Extends to an Action Founded on Defamation Merely Because the Statement was Made in the Context of Employment Does a Visit Imply Consent to Sex? Torture Under the Nigerian Anti-Torture Act 2017: A Comparative Analysis with International Jurisprudence The Regulatory Earthquake: CBN’s New Rules for Agent Banking Can Someone Else Swear It? Does The Filing of a Separate Action Instead of a Counter-Claim by a Defendant Amount to Abuse of Court Process? Can the Court at the Pre-Trial Stage Make Appropriate Decisions with Regards to Admission of Fact? Whether a Court can Convict a Defendant for a Lesser Offence when it has no Jurisdiction Over the Original Offence in the Existing Charge Can You Still Sue a Company That’s Being Wound Up? Effect of Failure of a Main Claim on Ancillary Claims What Must the Prosecution Prove in a Charge of Murder or Manslaughter? How Judges Decide Maintenance in Divorce Cases? NIIRA 2025: The Law that Rewrites Nigeria’s Entire Insurance Landscape Revisiting Third-Party Motor Insurance in Nigeria Under the Nigerian Insurance Industry Reform Act, 2025 (NIIRA 2025) Whether an Order Made in Favour/Against a Non-Party can be Enforced By/Against such Party The Consensual Nature of Arbitration: Whether a Non-Signatory to a Contract can be Bound by the Arbitral Decisions Stemming from the Contract Whether Criminal Liability is Transferable The Pillar of Justice: A Contemporary Analysis of Jurisdictional Competence and Judicial Authority in Nigeria A Legal Analysis of Nigeria Electoral Reform Amendment Bill 2026 Whether it is Enough for a Trial Judge to Say that He Believed a Witness Without Proper Evaluation of the Evidence Before Him Importance of Arraignment and Taking of the Plea of an Accused in a Criminal Trial; Effect of Non-Compliance with the Requirements of a Valid Arraignment Whether the Judicial Etc., Officers and Appeal By Prosecutors Act 1963 is an Existing/Relevant/Applicable Law in the Nigerian Legal System Can a Whistleblower Be Held Responsible for a Police Investigation? When a Defamation/Libel Claim Arises from an Employment Relationship, which Court should Hear It: the National Industrial Court or the State High Court? Copyright Protection in Nigeria Whether a Judgment Entered Pursuant to a Plea Bargain Agreement is a Consent Judgment Discretion of a Trial Court as to the Quantum of Damages to Be Awarded; When an Appellate Court Will Interfere with the Same Whether a Company Under Receivership can Appoint Legal Counsel in an Action Challenging the Validity of the Appointment of a Receiver/Manager Who Gets Maintenance After Divorce? Whether a Party who Fails to Prove His Pleaded Mode of Acquisition of Title to Land can Have Recourse to Other Pleaded Ways of Proving Title to Land Effect of Failure to Seek and Obtain Approval of The Corporate Affairs Commission on The Alteration of The Constitution of an Incorporated Trustee Can Conspiracy Exist Between Persons Who Have Never Seen or Corresponded with Each Other? Protecting Ideas or Powering Growth? An Evaluation of Nigeria’s National Intellectual Property Policy and Strategy Can an Employee of a Subsidiary Validly Testify for the Parent Company? A LEGAL APPRAISAL OF NIGERIA’S ELECTRONIC INVOICING REGULATORY FRAMEWORK (2025) The Juridical Treatment of Trial by Ordeal and Witchcraft in Nigeria Jurisprudence ONDO STATE MAKES LEGAL HISTORY: ALL LAWS TO GO FULLY ELECTRONIC THROUGH GROUNDBREAKING PARTNERSHIP WITH LAWPAVILION