CAN A LAW HAVE RETROSPECTIVE APPLICATION?
CAN A LAW HAS RETROSPECTIVE APPLICATION This is one of the topics that makes law student different in the campus because it is logical. Before deep penetration in to the fact in issue,I will like to define the meaning of retrospective in two eyes; grammatically and legally. Grammatically,it means, looking backwards or affecting or influencing past things; retroactive. anyway, with all these grammatical meanings, it means, the looking back on something that happened in the past events. Legally,is a law that affects events that happened or rights that occurred before it was passed; that is ex post facto law. On the other hand,is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences (or status) of action that were committed, or relationship that existed before the enactment of law. Conspicuously, the general principle of law is that the applicable law to an action is the law existing or the law that existed at the time of the couse of action arose .see the case of Adesanoye v. Adew...