"Having met the preconditions, there is no impediment in
the Evidence act that would pnevent the playing or
demonstrating the contents of the already demonstrated
DVD on any computer such as laptop projector and
screen."
In the same report, NWEZE JSC AT PAGE 27 held that:
'The impregnable juridical postulate of our adversarial
jurisprudence prohibits a judge from embarking on an
inquisitorial examination of documents outside the court
room."
is anathema for a judge to be allowed to act on what he discovered from
such a document. In relation to an issue when that was not supported by
evidence or was not bought to the notice of the parties to be agitated in
the adversary procedure. IVIENAGBOR V BAZUWAYE (1999) 9 NWLR
It
(PT 620) ss2
AT PAGE 3L-32 PARA D-A the court held that: it is not the duty of a court
to do cloistered justice by making an inquiry into the case outside even if
such inquiry is limited to examination of documents which were in evidence
when the documents had not been examined in court and their
examination out of court disclosed matters that had not been brought out
and exposed to test in court and were not such matters that, at length,
must be noticed in court.
On the other hand, their demonstration in open court would equally afford
the opposition the opportunity of testing and contesting their accuracy in
the usual adversarial method of cross examination.
This omission has been heavily frowned upon by the apex court and as
held in the case of DICKSON V SLVYA (SUPRA), INAKUOJU V
ADELEKE 2OO7 ALL FWLR (PT353) 3 AT 2OO(SC)and OYENIYI V
ADELEKE (2009) ALL FWLR PT 476) L9O2 AT 1912 that where a
process of production of a contputer document has been completed, the
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