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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The introduction of Practice Direction 31BOn 1 October 2010, a new practice direction, 31B on the disclosure of electronic documents comes into effect. The new practice direction is designed to ...

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 ...