"A brief has been defined as a condensed statement of the propositions of law or fact which a party or his counsel wishes to establish at the appeal together with reasons and authorities which can sustain them. See Nwokoro & Ors vs. Onuma & Ors (1990) LPELR-2125 SC per Karibi Whyte JSC at page 15 - 16. It is also the law that a bad, faulty or inelegant brief would not be discountenanced merely because it is poorly written as the Court has a duty to do substantial justice to the parties before it. See Tukur vs. Government of Taraba State (1997) 6 NWLR (Pt. 510) 549 and Akpan vs. State (1992) LPELR-381 p. 11. The Respondent's brief as pointed out earlier in my view is inelegantly drafted in the sense that it is divided into chapters and may be called a book rather than a brief. Secondly almost all the grounds of appeal are argued under issue 2 not because the issue is formulated from those grounds. It is the issues in the appeal that are arguable not the grounds of appeal and the particulars therein as the Respondent has done in the Respondent's brief of argument. Inspite of the inelegance of the Respondent's Brief demonstrated above the Court should still not close its eyes to the entire brief in the interest of justice. See Tukur vs. Government of Taraba State (supra) and Akpan vs. State (1992) (supra)."

 IKEOKAFOR v. OBODOEZE CITATION: (2018) LPELR-45068(CA)