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Categories of subject matters constituting "a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy"

Definition of "cause or matter affecting chieftaincy"

How the court will determine whether a relief constitutes a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

How to determine whether a matter before a court is one affecting chieftaincy

Proper order where a suit in the High Court constitutes a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

the principle that chieftaincy trial are fact-finding proceedings

The test for determining whether an issue is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

The tribunals with jurisdiction in causes or matters affecting chieftaincy

What constitutes a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

What constitutes a chieftaincy matter

Whether a case relating to the competence of the traditional council to hear a case is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether a challenge to the capacity of a chief in dispute relating to land transforms the action to a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether a claim by any person to be a royal of a particular stool is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether a claim for a declaration that a judgment of a traditional tribunal is null and void is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether a claim for a declaration that succession to the stool was rotatory between the two sections of the family is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether a claim for a special house to accommodate the original stool of a family, or the attempted recovery of the original stool is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether a claim for declaration that a person is a member of a royal family is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether a claim for rotation is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether a claim to be declared a chief is a chieftaincy matter

Whether a dispute affecting chieftaincy is limited only to those involving vacant stools

Whether a dispute as to the procedure adopted by Judicial Committees is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether a mere incidence of what purports to be a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy is sufficient to oust the jurisdiction of the High Court

Whether an action seeking to restore a person's name which was expunged from the register of the National House of Chiefs is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether an administrative act of removing a name from the national register amounts to a "cause or matter affecting chieftaincy"

Whether an “honourary chief” is a chief and whether a dispute over his installation would constitute a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether a suit to determine whether a person is the head of a stool family is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether basing a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy on the Constitution changes the nature of the action

Whether every case where words like ‘Chief’. ‘Kingmaker’, ‘royal’ etc. etc. are mentioned is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether questions raised in respect of the falsities or inaccuracies on Chieftaincy Declaration Forms amounts to a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether swearing of an oath is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether the avoidance of the use of "chief" or "enstoolment" means that a matter is not a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether the fact that a claim is based on a provision of the constitution means that it is not a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether the fact that the question of whether or not a person is a chief arises in the course of a suit constitutes the matter as one affecting chieftaincy

Whether the issue as to which chief has the customary authority to appoint a chief for Akuse is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether the mere fact that a person says ‘I am a chief’ or he is not a chief will automatically make it a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether the mere fact that it is averred in a pleading that someone is a chief makes the suit a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether the mere fact that there is reference to the name of a chief, a stool, or a skin in an application means it is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether the mere incidence of an issue relating to chieftaincy in proceedings in the ordinary court constitutes it as a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether the mere mentioning of whether a person has been destooled or otherwise makes it a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether the question of swearing an oath of allegiance to the overload or the occupant of a Paramount Stool is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether the question of the existence, nature and composition of a traditional council is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether the question of the nomination, election, appointment or installation of a woman to fill a vacancy created by the death of a queenmother is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether the recovery of stool property in connection with the destoolment of any person as a chief is a cause or matter affecting chieftaincy

Whether the subject-matter of the great oath exchanged between parties is a “cause or matter affecting chieftaincy”

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