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Jurisdiction and Applicable Law in Transnational Dispute Resolution before the Nigerian Courts

In the course of judicial resolution of cases with connections straddling two or more countries, two of the important preliminary issues that often arise are (1) whether the court in which the relevant action has been commenced can properly exercise subject-matter jurisdiction over the dispute, or in personam jurisdiction over the parties, or both, and (2) which country's law should be applied to the dispute.These are separate albeit increasingly interconnected questions; in most cases, each deserves a separate and clear determination by the courts whenever it is raised.Occasionally, in the co…