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Category: Non Fiction / Law
Year of Publication: 2020
321 pages
Not for sale.
Two Decades of Forensic Advocacy at the Inner Bar – A Festschrift in Honour of Yusuf Ali, SAN is a two volume compilation of the critical reviews of some of the reported cases conducted by Yusuf Ali, SAN and the judgments delivered in the cases.
Volume One is essentially the critique and review of 41 judgments in 20 chapters touching and concerning issues of criminal prosecution and the duty of the prosecution, the jurisdiction of courts to determine cases; statutory interpretation; exercise of court’s discretion; electoral matters and election petitions; impeachment process in Nigeria and the role of courts; labour and employment; banking processes and the challenges of guaranteeship; disciplinary process of judicial officers; the constitution and the role of courts; estoppels and negligence; chieftaincy; Nigerian littoral state and sovereign wealth written by some of the finest legal minds in Nigeria, in the methodical and structured way that all the articles were linked together symmetrically.
It is pertinent to stress that the reviews were clinically conveyed and the criticisms of the cases were done in such a way that the frontiers of the jurisprudence of Nigerian law is further expanded.
