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29/08/2024

The Court of Appeal has settled this issue in the case of F.R.N.v.Ozekhome (2021) 9 NWLR (Pt 1782)448 ratio one.

On Right of legal practitioner to fees for services rendered and whether bound to ask client source of money used to pay such fees -

"A legal practitioner is entitled to his fees for professional services rendered and such fees cannot be rightly labeled as proceeds of crime. Further, it is not a requirement of the law that a legal practitioner would go into inquiry before receiving his fees from his client, to find out the source of the fund from which he would be paid. In this case, there was no evidence on record at the time the money was paid to the respondent’s chambers to show that the money was from the proceeds of unlawful activities.Therefore, the trial court rightly refused to hold that the money was from unlawful activities"

24/08/2024

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-Oliver Wendell Holmes

24/08/2024

WASSAH & ORS v. KARA & ORS

(2014) LPELR-24212(SC)

Issue
EVIDENCE - DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE - Procedure for admitting documents in evidence and the effect of admission or rejection of a document
"The well laid down procedure for admitting documents in evidence is for the trial judge to hear arguments for and against the admissibility of the document, then render a Ruling. If the ruling is favourable to the document being admitted in evidence the document is admitted in evidence and marked as an exhibit. If on the other hand the Ruling is unfavourable the document is marked rejected. A document marked as an exhibit is good evidence that the judge is expected to rely on when preparing his judgment. A document tendered and marked rejected cannot be tendered again. Once a document is marked rejected it stays rejected for the purposes of the trial in which it was marked rejected and the defect cannot be cured during the said trial. See Agbaje v. Adigun & Ors (1993) 1 NWLR (Pt. 269) p. 271." Per OLABODE RHODES-VIVOUR, JSC (Pp 24 - 24 Paras A - D)

24/08/2024

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