Sentences with phrase «second defendant»

The phrase "second defendant" refers to the person who is being accused or sued in a legal case, and is considered the second person on trial or facing legal consequences. Full definition
Her former employers were originally named as second defendants, presumably on the basis that their reference had been misleading, but the council's claim against them was settled before trial.
In its statement of claim supported by a 20 paragraph affidavit deposed to by Mr Chris Ndulue, a Director with Arik Air, the plaintiff asked the court to restrain the first and second defendants from further negotiations on its takeover.
The first and second defendants right of pre-emption (which stemmed from the original conveyance of the hotel) did not confer on them a present or contingent interest in the retained land.
The matter was thereafter adjourned pending an application by the insurers (added as second defendant) to seek wasted costs as against the claimant's solicitor.
A former chief of the now - disbanded Dixmoor Park District Police Department and a second defendant, who was an original member of the Chi - Lites soul group, pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal extortion charges for selling police badges to businessmen.
While addressing the court, the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, told the court that the second defendant, Adedoyin, benefited the sum of N28million out of the N70, 050,000.00 (Seventy Million, Fifty Thousand Naira) he collected from the third defendant, Bashir, during the 2015 general election.
Before the bail conditions are met however, the first and third defendants are to be remanded in prison while the second defendant, who had written a letter to the EFCC on his poor state of health, will be remanded in the Commission's custody.
«Incidentally, the second defendant is on administrative bail by the commission.
On his part, counsel to the second defendant (Destra Investments) Tochukwu Onwugbufor, SAN, while responding to Tahir's sudmission on Dasuki urged the court to order Daura's arrest.
Agbo, the second defendant who is an employee of Rickey Tarfa and Co., on May 14, 2015 paid the N1.5 million allegedly from Tarfa into Yunusa's UBA account no. 1005055617.
At the last adjourned sitting on March 14, 2017, the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, had sought to tender the list of the beneficiaries of the alleged $ 115,010,000 along with the attached Certificate of Identification issued, but Olatunji Ayanlaja, SAN, counsel to the second defendant, Sulaiman, objected to its admissibility.
In one of the counts, the EFCC alleged that Fani - Kayode, who it listed as the second defendant in the charge sheet, and his co-defendants conspired among themselves to «indirectly retain the sum of N1, 500, 000,000, which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms part of the proceeds of an unlawful act to wit: stealing.»
The PDP represented by Mr. Moses Ojo, had sought four reliefs in the motion the party and they are: A mandatory order for reversal of all steps taken by the first defendant and second defendant, an order to declare the National Assembly elections and State House of Assembly election nullity: an order directing the INEC to withdraw the certificate of return given to the winners of the elections and an order compelling the INEC to conduct a by election to fill the seats.
The witness, who testified as the fifth prosecution witness, PW - 5, said the N77.5 million was paid to the PR firm through the bank account of Metuh's company, Destra Investment Limited, which is the second defendant before the court.
Babale, who is of the legal department of the Nigeria Immigration Service noted that the first defendant having succeeded in 2012 came to Nigeria with the second defendant to acquire Nigerian Passport but luck ran out of them.
Arguing in support of the motion, Mr Tochukwu Onwugbufo (SAN), counsel to Destra Investment Limited, the second defendant, aligned himself with Ikpeazu's submissions.
According to the Minister in a suit number 6 / 577/2016, filed at the High Court of the federal Capital territory in the Abuja Judicial Division, is seeking among others, payment of an aggravated damages to the tune of N3billion, (N2 billion against Lere Olayinka, the first defendant and another N1bilion aggravated damages against Dr Omotoso, the second defendant).
He believed that the witnesses actually established enough primae facie that money was paid by the third defendant into the account of the second defendant in March 2015.
«The plaintiff avers that the agreement of the second defendant with the first defendant will be wide ranging and intricately affect every aspect of the plaintiff herein, including but not limited to the day to day running technical as well as financial management which will affect the plaintiff as being the largest domestic and regional airline in Nigeria.
The money was allegedly laundered through the accounts of Ebiwise Resources Limited, Avalon Global Property Development Company Limited, Rotato Inter-Link Services Limited and Pluto Property & Investment Company Limited in a new generation bank, where the second defendant, Iwejuo was the accounts officer.
«The plaintiff further avers that the action taken by the first and second defendants will have a negative effect on the country's image as the plaintiff being the largest airline will be pawned over to another country for management,» it said.
The plaintiff and the second defendant in the matter, Valentino Nii Noi, who won the primary, agreed to the submission and moved the motion to set aside the earlier default judgement given by the court when the party failed to make an appearance.
He said that the second defendant who predicated her application for bail on health grounds did not provide any medical report to back it up.
He argued that since the court had acknowledged the existence of pending applications, it would amount to an «anticipatory» refusal by the court, of the application of the second defendant.
With the rejection of the previous judge, Justice Tsoho, the prosecution amended the former six counts by adding five fresh counts, including terrorism and brought in Onwudiwe as the second defendant.
In a writ sighted by OTECFMGHANA.COM, Mr. Agyepong is asking the court to issue «an order compelling the first defendant to immediately cause to be retracted the defamatory statement via the same medium used in making them thus through the frequency modulation of the second defendant and to render an unqualified apology to the plaintiff via the same media.
«The Chief Registrar shall release the passport of the second defendant to travel overseas from Feb. 5 to March 5 and return his passport to the Chief Registrar on or before March.
The first Defendant (Badeh) pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against him, while the court relied on Section 478 of the Criminal Justice Act to enter a «not guilty» plea for the second defendant which is a corporation.
Counsels to the second defendant, Ngbangba, as well as counsel to the third defendant, Nelson Imoh, also pleaded with the court to grant their clients bail on self - recognizance.
The writ filed on Monday, March 26, 2018 has the Attorney General Gloria Akuffo and Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul as the first and second defendants.
In the notice of preliminary objection, the National Assembly (Second defendant / applicant) contended that the plaintiff / respondents lack the requisite locus standi to file the case.
But Akinjide's lawyer, Ayorinde, and the counsel for the second defendant, Mr. Michael Lana, accused Oyedepo of breach of agreement.
In his submission, counsel to the second defendant, Destra Investments Limited, allegedly owned by Metuh, Tochukwu Onwugbufor (SAN) said the application deals with the exercise of the court's discretion.
Hearing notice are to be served on the second defendant who is absent in court ``, he ruled.
«I believe the second defendant (Dasuki) just wanted to try his luck by filing this application.
Below is a commentary drafted by Brian Deer in 2006 for Channel 4's lawyers, concerning a complaint lodged in 1996 on behalf of Andrew Wakefield, «the claimant», against an earlier programme by Twenty Twenty, «the second defendant», which investigated the former gut surgeon's [abandoned] claim that vaccines against measles caused the inflammatory bowel disorder Crohn's disease.
Callaway says United Soils Management Ltd. has sued at least two other people in the same community for defamation and Sotos is representing a second defendant.
During a deposition, Todd & Weld attorneys uncovered a fact that was devastating for the defense: the second defendant admitted to adding handwritten notes on medical records in an attempt to exonerate herself after she learned she was being sued for malpractice.
Despite complaining of severe headaches to the first defendant (a primary care physician), and several visits to the second defendant (a neurologist) whom the plaintiff advised she had a stroke during a prior pregnancy, the plaintiff did not receive the testing or treatment to ensure that she would not suffer another stroke.
The claimants successfully established that the DIFC Courts had jurisdiction over the claims against the second defendant, a Swiss legal entity.
Half way through the contract term, Bluecrest switched its heart screening services to the Second Defendant («Express»), one of the claimants» competitors.
During cross-examination it came to light that (i) the expert's company was in commercial discussions with the second defendant, Express and (ii) the manner in which he was instructed was not in accordance with Part 35 or as set out in his written report.
After an application under CPR Part 71 to cross examine the Second Defendant as to the company's means, it was disclosed by the company's solicitors that the proceedings had been funded by Mrs Godden, the mother of the Second and Third Defendants, Jeremy and Jordan Godden.
A large number of pleadings were exchanged before, the second defendant issued an application in the TCC to transfer the case from the county court to the TCC under CPR 30.3 (2) and para 2.1 of CPR Pt 60 PD.
Lynne McCafferty (instructed by Fisher Jones Greenwood) for the second defendant.
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