REBOLD INDUSTRIES LIMITED V. MAGREOLA LADIPO (PRACTICING UNDER THE NAME AND STYLE OF OLADIPO MAGREOLA & CO)

MONICA BOLNA'AN DONGBAN-MENSEM, J.C.A. JP (Delivering the Leading Judgment): On the 26th day of November, 1998, the Appellant filed a motion before the Lagos State High Court challenging the jurisdiction of the Court on the grounds of the none locus standi of the Respondent. The High Court Coram A.R.A Salid J dismissed the motion in a Ruling pronounced on the 21st day of February 2000. Aggrieved by the said Ruling, the Appellant filed this appeal on the 23rd day of February 2000. Additional grounds of Appeal were filed on the 14th day of May 2002 with the leave of this court. A total of three grounds of appeal were filed.

The brief facts of the case which metaphase into this appeal are recounted anon; - sometimes in 1995, the services of the Respondent as a firm of Solicitors, were retained by the Mandilas Group Limited for the preparation and engrossment of a deed of sublease between the Mandilas Group Limited and Rebold Industries Limited (being the Appellants). The sublease was in …