Jurisdiction dependent on ascertainment of facts

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• DENTON-WEST V. WALSON-JACK (2009)→

  Court

  Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division

  Judgment date

  14 July 2008

  Summary of Denton-West v. Walson-Jack, a pivotal case on jurisdiction and fundamental human rights enforcement in Nigerian law.

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