After a long hiatus, this writer appeared before a Magistrate court over a small claims case (less than N10 million liquidated money demand), and the experience before Magistrate Odubayo Oluwafumilayo ...

The Administrative Review Tribunal has updated 6 of its practice directions following feedback from applicants, representatives, advocates and other ...

The Chief Judge of Edo State, Hon. Justice D.I. Okungbowa, has expressed readiness to issue a judicial practice direction that would streamline enforcement of Nigeria’s Freedom of Information Act ...

The Judicial Service has developed new Practice Directions and Administrative Guidelines to promote ethical behaviour by Judicial Service Staff and Judges. The Directions and Guidelines are Practice ...

To raise such an objection and state the basis of same cannot be done efficiently by a litigant or the witness called. Background: The President of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN), Hon ...

Dr Lawrence McNamara is an academic at the University of York and a Senior Research Fellow at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law A new practice direction reveals some valuable progress in the ...

Many practitioners will be aware that Practice Direction 57AC (the practice direction) came into force on 6 April 2021, imposing a number of new requirements in respect of trial witness statements in ...