ALHAJI GANIYU AMOKOMOWO V ALHAJI IMAM GAFARU ANDU
July 23, 2025SANUSI ABDULLAHI V THE STATE
July 23, 2025Legalpedia Citation: (1985) Legalpedia (SC) 81354
In the Supreme Court of Nigeria
HOLDEN AT ABUJA
Thu May 2, 1985
Suit Number: SC.77/1984
CORAM
IRIKEFE
U. MOHAMMED, JUSTICE SUPREME COURT
MAIIMUDE MOHAMMED, JUSTICE SUPREME COURT
KARIBI-WHYTE
KAWU
PARTIES
FRED EGBE APPELLANTS
JUSTICE A. ADEFARASINS.O. ILORI RESPONDENTS
AREA(S) OF LAW
SUMMARY OF FACTS
SUMMARY OF FACTS
The claim is essentially a challenge as to the validity of the act of the Judge, and a public officer in the discharge of their duties as a Judge or such officer.
HELD
APPEAL DISMISSED
ISSUES
Whether the action against the defendants in the circumstances is maintainable in Law
RATIONES DECIDENDI
UNBIASED ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
“The principle at law, of exemption from being sued for matters done by Judges in their judicial capacity, is of great importance. It is necessary to the free and impartial administration of justice that the person administering it should be uninfluenced by fear and unbiased by hope. Judges have not been invested with this privilege for their own protection merely; it is calculated for the benefit of the people, by ensuring to them a calm, steady and impartial administration of justice; it is a principle coeval with the law of the land, and the dispensation of justice in this country; and is founded on the very frame of the Constitution; it is to be met within the earliest books of law” FOX J,
CASES CITED
Taaffee v. Downes
STATUTES REFERRED TO
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