"In Maersk Line and Another v Addide Investment Ltd & Anor. (2002)11 NWLR (Pt.778)317 at 383, this Court per Ayoola, JSC, stated in the leading judgment on the issue of over reliance on technicality or being seemingly weighed down with such a consideration as follows :-

The judicial process malfunctions and is discredited when it is bogged down by technicalities and is manipulated to go from technicality to technicality and thrive on technicalities. That is why at all times the tendency towards technicality should be eschewed and, the determination to do substantial justice should remain the preferred option and the hallmark of our judicial system.

See C & C Const. Co. Ltd v Okhai (2003)18 NWLR (Pt.851)79."

PER P. A. GALUMJE, J.S.C. IN THE CASE OF KULAK TRADES & INDUSTRIES PLC V THE TUG BOAT M/V JAPAUL B. AND ANOR; LEGALPEDIA ELECTRONIC CITATION: LER[2019] SC.109/2011