The Judiciary will implement a practice direction on mediation from January 1. Courts will encourage litigating parties to use an alternative dispute resolution procedure when appropriate. The ...

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 High Court has issued a number of clarifications of a new practice direction applying to the immigration, asylum and citizenship list after solicitors raised concerns about it. The direction ...

The Taraba State Judiciary has adopted a new Administration of Criminal Justice Law Practice Direction 2025, a move the Chief Judge, Justice Joel Agya, described as “a decisive step towards a faster, ...

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 ...