ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE - Rule of law vs. Rule of force - Need for government to respect the former and avoid the latter - Notable pronouncements in respect of - Obeya Memorial Hospital vs. Att.-Gen., Federation S.C. 1580 APPEAL - Stay of execution of judgment pending appeal and injunction pending appeal - Principles guiding grant of - Similarity of - Crown Estate Ltd. vs. Adewunmi C.A. 1541 CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE - Sentencing under Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000 - Discretionary power of court to impose lesser sentence than that prescribed therein - Egwaba vs. F.R.N. C.A. 1512 EVIDENCE - Judicial notice - Comparative interpretation of sections 113 & 74(i), Evidence Act, Cap. 112, 1990 Laws of the Federation vis-a-vis power of court to take judicial notice of some facts - Olagunji vs. Adesoye C.A. 1416 INJUNCTION - Interlocutory or interim injunction application made on contested facts - Guiding principles for grant of - Obeya Memorial Hospital vs. Att.-Gen., Federation S.C. 1580 JUDGMENT AND ORDERS - Recorded decision of court - Party seeking to alter - Option open to - First Bank of Nigeria Plc. vs. Asubop & Co. (Nig.) Ltd. C.A. 1527 LAND LAW - Land holdings in Southern and Northern Nigeria before the advent of Land Use Act, 1978 - Difference between - Olagunji vs. Adesoye C.A. 1416 MEDICAL LAW - H.I.V. positive patient’s appearance as plaintiff in court to give evidence objected to by the defendant - Trial court’s ruling that ‘life has no duplicate’ and that ‘an expert’ was necessary to give evidence on the infectiousness of the disease which plaintiff’s presence in court may occasion - Plaintiff’s expression of readiness to bring expert construed as consent to the order - How viewed by Court of Appeal - Ahamefule vs. Imperial Medical Centre C.A. 1553 PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - Status-quo - Maintaining until trial - Considerations for - Adeyemi Works Construction (Nig.) Ltd. vs. Omolehin C.A. 1564 STATUTE - Land Use Act, 1978 section 3 - Designation of an area as Urban Area - Effect - Olagunji vs. Adesoye C.A. 1416