Sentences with phrase «sufferings of land owners»

Also speaking, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), a human rights lawyer, commended the state government on the passage of the law on land grabbers, saying it would alleviate the sufferings of land owners.

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In a decision that could strike fear into the hearts of property owners across the province, a Superior Court judge refused to dismiss a claim by a first - time woodcutter who suffered serious injuries when one of the trees he was cutting down landed on him.

The Court found that the discriminatory operation of the Mining Act lay in the failure in the legislation creating the rights to confer a right to compensation to native title holders for the appropriation of their property in the same way compensation was provided to other owners and occupiers of the land for the loss and damage they suffered as a result of mining.