CORONA VIRUS: FORCE MAJEURE AND THE COMMON LAW DOCTRINE OF FRUSTRATION

AUTHOR: AKINYEMI AKINWUNMI H. INTRODUCTION With the number of confirmed cases exceeding 5 million, governments across the globe have been forced to take several safety measures to contain the spread of the pandemic – Corona Virus. For example, the United Kingdom has passed an Emergency Coronavirus Act, giving government officials new powers to prohibit gatherings […]

LEGAL IMPLICATION OF COVID-19 ON STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS

The outbreak of the Coronavirus, its effects and the need to practice social distancing in order to curb the virus are no longer new concepts. The economic and social effects the virus has caused globally is disheartening. According to a news article on Punchng.com, published on 24th March, 2020, The Chief Justice of Nigeria and […]

THE FUNKE AKINDELE SAGA VIS-A-VIS EMERGENCY LAWS by Adedeji Obadofin

Perhaps, the Corona Virus disease which is currently ravaging several health sectors of the entire universe is now visible to the blind and audible to the deaf. The deadly Virus which was discovered last year in Wuhan, China has wrecked so much havoc across the globe such that people now live in fear even as […]