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Acknowledgements
The concept of Nigerian Casebook Law Series has endured for years with me as indicated
in the preface of my personal experience as a student and as a law teacher. The minds
of undergraduate students encountering the difficulties of handling some law courses
such as Law of Contract, Law of Tort, Land Law or Property Law, Constitutional Law, etc., will
be similar. Let me first acknowledge the will of God who created in me the idea of a Nigerian
Casebook Law Series. I also wish to acknowledge the lawyers, the founding fathers of these
massive law reports in Nigeria who have planted the seeds of the various Law Reports that I am
harvesting, starting from Gani Fawehinmi, Layi Babatunde, Sasegbon, Femi Falana, Kupolati,
Osipitan, Diya and Smith, Ogbeide Quadri and many others I have unconsciously omitted. It is
the bulk containing all these Law Reports to which I have added my own value.
There are many names of other law report publishers I wish to specifically acknowledge such
as Federation Weekly Law Reports (FWLR), Supreme Court Monthly (SCM), Monthly Supreme
Court Judgements (MSCJ), Monthly Law Reports by Osipitan (MLR), Weekly Law Reports
by Falana, Law Reports by Professor Imman Smith, West African Supreme Courts (WASC),
Investments and Securities Law Reports, Eastern Nigeria Law Reports (ENLR), Law Report
of East Central State of Nigeria (ECSLR), Selected Judgements of the High Court of Lagos
State (CCHCJ), Lagos High Court Monthly Law Reports, Rivers State Law Reports (RSLR),
University of Ife (Nigeria) Law Reports (UILR), Law Reports of Courts in Nigeria published by
Mayton Development Company Ltd, Law Reports of Nigeria (LRN), Northern Region of Nigeria
Law Reports (NRNLR), Northern Nigeria Law Reports (NNLR), West African Court of Appeal
Law Report (WACA), Commercial Law Reports Nigeria (CLRN) published by Acolex, Weekly
Bench Law Reports of Nigeria (WBRN), All England Law Reports (All ER), Weekly Law Reports
(WLR), Nigerian Revenue Law Reports (NRLR), Nigerian Commercial Law Reports (NCLR) to
which I have added my own value and other publishers I have not specifically mentioned here.
Right from 1988 when I joined the Lagos State University (LASU), the Law Faculty has enjoyed
the goodwill of the public as one of the best Faculties in Nigeria. I can state that it was the
combination of the good staff recruited by Professor Afolabi Olumide, the pioneering Vice
Chancellor who recruited me from the University of Ilorin when NUC closed down the Faculty
of Law. The situation in the Faculty of Law changed when the government changed. There had
been complaints about the structure of the Law Faculty as a professional body but the change
is just coming to limelight.
In January 2014, I joined the School of Law at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN)
after retirement from LASU. The idea of embarking on writing the Nigerian Casebook Law
Series was a dream which gradually became a reality three months after I resumed in the Open

University. The academic environment in NOUN was so cordial and congenial that it gave me
the conviction that the mission to complete the first phase of the series is realizable.
I thank the Vice Chancellor of Redeemer’s University, Professor Anthony E. Akinlo, for giving
me the appointment as a Professor of Law in the Faculty and eventually the opportunity to
complete the second phase of other Casebooks.
The Casebooks cover all the compulsory and non-compulsory but elective courses in the
academic programmes of the Faculties of Law in Nigeria. I also thank the Deputy Vice Chancellor
(Academic), Professor Patrick Eya for his advice and friendly academic disposition. The Dean
of Law, School of Law, Professor Justus A. Sokefun, now the Deputy Vice Chancellor who used
all the means at his disposal to make the projects see the light of day, his soothing advice and
encouragement to make me believe the project is not a dream. Finally, I thank all my academic
colleagues in the Faculty of Law.
The tedious efforts in producing the Casebook Law Series involved a team of students who
pioneered the venture with me. Miss Ifeoluwayimika Somoye, a graduate of Religious Studies
and Law who started the preliminary work on the book project. She was joined by others, Paul
Sunday Udoh, Olusegun Olanrewaju Mabawonku, Tobi Michael Babalola, Chinedu Ihenelu-
Geoffery, Tola Adebesin and the late Ihenetu Omolara Abisola Fadeyi. I thank them all.
Professor Olusegun Yerokun
Redeemer’s University, Ede
Osun State, Nigeria.