Commercial Law Reports Nigeria (CLRN) is a specialized report in the area of commercial law established since 2004. As the name implies, the report focuses on core areas of commercial law such as trademarks and intellectual property, contracts and other commercial obligations; shipping and maritime disputes; company law and corporate governance; revenue law and tax appeals; employment law; arbitration and banking matters all of which come within the publisher’s contemplation, although the categories remain open.
The obvious objective of the publishers in establishing CLRN was to meet an obligation to fill a much needed vacuum and to deliver to the legal public a contribution for posterity and the furtherance of legal expertise. This however has remained our commitment.
Commercial Law Reports, Nigeria is unique in its style in that it employs affirmative statements in its headlines to quote portions of the judge’s decision thus, bringing a researcher closer to locating in quick time the actual decision that is being sought.
Furthermore, unlike other reports, CLRN seeks to distinguish the ratio decidendi in the judgment from the obiter dictum in order to arrest the steady and growing practice whereby the courts are being led to follow precedents that are otherwise not binding on them.
Another unique feature of CLRN is the re-introduction of reported High Court decisions in the life of law reporting since until same becomes a subject of appeal and eventually set aside by an appellate court, it remains a statement of the position of the law on the matter decided and as such becomes of immense value to the commercial law practitioner in his role as adviser.
