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SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE

By CIVIL MATTERSNo Comments

Specific performance is a court-ordered remedy that requires precise fulfillment of a legal or contractual obligation when monetary damages are inappropriate or inadequate. Specific performance is an equitable remedy that lies within the court’s discretion to award whenever the common law remedy is insufficient either because the damages could be inadequate or because damages could not be possibly established. In essence, the remedy of specific performance enforces the execution of a contract according to its terms, and it may therefore be contrasted with the common law remedy of damages, which is compensation for non-execution of contracts. (Pp. 40-41, paras. H-B).

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RECUSAL OF A JUDGE

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Recusal, with respect to judicial proceedings is the stepping aside or disqualification of a judicial officer from a case on the ground of personal interest in the matter, bias, prejudice, or conflict of interest, or if he has conducted himself in such a way that he could be regarded as having become, directly or indirectly, a party to the proceedings. (P. 234, paras. C-D).

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RATIO DECENDI

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Ratio decidendi represents the reasoning or principle or ground upon which a case is decided. It means what was decided. It is not something which a party imagines or thinks was decided. The ratio decidendi of a case lays down the principle of law that has the binding force of precedent. It makes good sense that such peripheral expressions, i.e. obiter dicta, should not be allowed to becloud the substance of a court’s judgment.

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POLITICAL PARTY

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A party is like a club. It has its own rules, regulation, guidelines, and constitution. Members join the party on their own free will. By joining, they freely give their consent to be bound by the rules, regulation, guidelines and constitution of the party. The rules of the party must be obeyed by all members of the party, as the party’s decision is final over its own affairs.

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PRE-ELECTION

By CIVIL MATTERS, PNo Comments

By a combination of section 285(14)(a) of the1999 Constitution (as amended) and section 84 of the Electoral Act, pre-election matters such as a complaint from an aspirant at a political party’s primary election about the conduct of the primary election is justiciable. But where an issue between members of a political party borders on an alleged violation arising from the conduct of the political party’s congress to elect delegates or its officers, it would amount to the domestic affairs of the party which is not justiciable.

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PLEADINGS

By CIVIL MATTERS, PNo Comments

A claimant for specific performance of a contract must set forth facts to show that the breach of the contract cannot be adequately compensated for in damages. This is so because specific performance would not be decreed if the claimant would be adequately compensated by the common law remedy of damages.

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PARTIES

By CIVIL MATTERS, PNo Comments

An interested party in a matter before a court of law, is a party or person who is affected or aggrieved or likely to be aggrieved by the proceedings, orders or decision of the court in the matter. It can also refer to a person who has suffered a legal grievance, or a person against whom a decision has been pronounced which has wrongfully deprived him of something or wrongfully affected his title to something

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ORIGINATING SUMMONS

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Where a suit is commenced by originating summons, the content of the affidavit in support of the summons, rather than pleadings, forms the basis of the court’s determination whether the defence of limitation of action is viable. In this case, all that the respondents’ supporting affidavit needed to provide in respect of the issue of statute-bar was the time the cause of action accrued and when the action against the appellants was commenced.

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