WILLIAMS
V.
MAJEKODUNMI

(1962) JELR 58722 (SC)

Supreme Court 1 Jun 1962 Nigeria
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- Chief F.R.A. Williams has filed an ex parte application for an interim injunction to restrain the defendant, who is the administrator under the Emergency Powers (Restriction Orders) Regulations, from enforcing a restriction order on the a

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Suit Number:F.S.C. 166/1962
Judges:SIR LIONEL BRETT, F.J. (Presided and Read the Judgment of the Court) JOHN IDOWU CONRAD TAYLOR, F.J. SIR VAHE BAIRAMIAN, F.J.
Counsel:Applicant in person. Respondent absent and unrepresented.

BRETT FJ. (Delivering the Judgment of the Court): This is an ex parte ap­plication by Chief F.R.A. Williams, on whom a restriction order, effective from 11 a.m. on the 2nd June, 1962, has been served in accordance with the Emergency Powers (Restriction Orders) Regulations, 1962, for an interim injunction restraining the defendant, who is the administrator for the pur­pose of the regulations, from giving effect to the restriction order or other­wise requiring the applicant’s residence or movement to be restricted pend­ing the determination of a motion on notice filed by the applicant, in which he seeks an interlocutory injunction for the same purpose pending the hear­ing of an action in which he asks for a declaration that the restriction order, and the legislation under which it was issued are invalid and a permanent in­junction to restrain the enforcement of the order. The motion on notice is set down for hearing in this Court on the 4th June.

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