Privy Council judgments: Opinions of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Appeals from West Africa 1841 to 1973.
Date
1981
Authors
CHUKURA, Olisa
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Publisher
Ibadan, Oyo state(P.O. Box 1818): Gillford & Co., Publishers,
Abstract
Reports included in the work and their abbreviations; Alphabetical table of cases; Table of cases; Index of subject Matter; Judgments.
Description
The 254 judgments contained in this volume are the opinions of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in all appeals from Nigeria (95), Ghana (124), Sierra Leone (29) and The Gambia (6) to the Privy Council from 1841 to 1973. Of these 215 have been traced to the regular law reports. Before now the others (39) have probably not been reported. The bulk of the material in this Report was collected in 1968 and 1969 and the editing was completed early in 1976. The Table of Cases records in detail the various reports in which the judgments can be found. For the previously unreported opinions, the relevant Privy Council particulars are given. There has also been included a comprehensive Index of Subject-Matter. This Report serves a twofold purpose: first, it is in some way a history of the association of the four Anglophone West African Commonwealth countries with the United Kingdom in their various stages of growth from being merely colonial possessions to their attaining full self-governing status, during which period the judicial framework and outlook of the Privy Council remained virtually consistent. Secondly, by including all the pronouncements of the Privy Council in all the appeals which were heard..