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At what instance will a consent judgment be set aside

Condition for entering a consent judgment by the court

Distinction between a consent judgment and a judgment entered on the basis of admission

Effect of a vague term of settlement

Effect of settlement of an action in or out of court

Effect of the court entering a consent judgment not signed by the parties

General principles regarding consent judgment

Grounds for setting aside a consent judgment

How a consent judgment can be set aside

How a consent judgment is ascertained

How a consent judgment is made

How a consent judgment should be construed

Meaning and import of consent judgment

Measures to be taken by the court before approving same

Nature of a consent judgment

Need for parties to a consent judgment to reach a complete and final agreement on the vital issue in their terms of settlement

Need for parties to be ad idem as far as their agreement is concerned

Options open to a party seeking the court to set aside a consent judgment

Procedure for setting aside a consent judgment

Process of making a consent judgment

Terms of Settlement

16 subsidiary principles

The effect of a consent judgment

The essence of preferring a procedure of impeaching a consent judgment through an action by writ

The import of a consent judgment

The rule that parties are bound by the terms of a consent judgment in the absence of fraud or mistake

The scope of consent judgment

The test for determining whether the court has the inherent power to vary a consent judgment

What a party seeking to set aside a consent judgment must prove

What consent judgment connotes

What constitutes a consent judgment

What parties can enforce in a pretrial settlement

When a consent judgment can be entered

When a settlement by parties becomes a consent judgment

When a valid consent judgment will arise

Whether a consent judgment can be challenged by a motion on notice

Whether a consent judgment can be challenged by a stranger to the suit

Whether a consent judgment can be entered in respect of a matrimonial cause

Whether a consent judgment can be set aside by way of appeal

Whether a consent judgment can be set aside on the ground of mistake

Whether a consent judgment can operate as res judicata

Whether a consent judgment is a valid judgment

Whether a consent judgment is enforceable like any other judgment

Whether a consent judgment is sacrosanct

Whether a consent judgment replaces a previous contract; whether a bank can the interests and charges obtaining under the former agreements

Whether a consent order can be revoked by another judge on a subsequent complaint by one of the parties that his counsel did not have prior consultation with him before the consent order was made

Whether a court can refuse to make an order in accordance with a settlement reached by the parties

Whether a court can vary a consent judgment

Whether a defendant to a consent judgment can be bound by the judgment where there is a pending court action challenging his rights in the subject matter of the suit

Whether an appeal lies against a consent judgment

Whether a party can apply to have a consent judgment set aside where he has taken several steps in the matter after the entry of judgment was served on him

Whether a party can bring a fresh suit to set aside a consent judgment

Whether a party can plead ignorance of a consent judgment where the parties obtained an adjournment of the trial of a suit and nominated counsel to protect their interests at an arbitration

Whether a party consenting to a judgment or order and the lawyer should be in court when the consent judgment is entered

Whether parties must file the agreed terms at the Registry of the court before same could be adopted as consent judgment

Whether parties must inform the court of an intended settlement

Whether parties to a consent judgment can expand the monetary claim in the original cause of action

Whether parties to a consent judgment can vary the content of the judgment

Whether the agreement on which a consent judgment is delivered must be confined to the reliefs claimed in the action

Whether the court has discretion to enter terms of settlements as its judgment or not

Whether the court interfere to set aside a consent judgment

Whether the court is duty-bound to enter a consent judgment

Whether the court will inquire whether the proposed settlement achieves a just result

Whether the mere settlement of an action out of court constitutes a valid consent judgment

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