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3. the Now I, Honourble Justice Kazeem .O. Alogba Chief Judge of Lagos State, pursuant to the provisions of Section 6(6) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), Section 87 of the High Court Law of Lagos State 2015, Order 49 Rules 1,2 and 3 of the High Court of Lagos

The Remote Court/ Virtual Proceeding shall attract a fee of N30,000.00 (Thirty Thousand Naira) per session; All Applications for virtual hearing shall be made to the Court hearing the matter; Upon approval, payment shall be made to the court; Upon receipt of payment, the Assistant Chief Registrar (ACR) Litigation shall schedule the case for ...

A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr Abdullah Olawale Wahab said the establishment of the virtual hearing at the Epe Division of the court was commendable. He said Lagos Judiciary has taken a leap into the ...

The outbreak of COVID-19 brought about the hitherto uncommon practice of e-filing as well as the practice of virtual court proceedings in the Nigerian Judiciary in a bid to dispense with extremely urgent, essential, or time-bound matters. The Lagos State High Court had its first virtual or remote court hearing on May 4, 2020, where a driver, Olalekan Hameed, was tried, convicted, and sentenced ...

some practice directions to introduce the practice of virtual hearing into the court proceedings. The Lagos State judiciary was among the initiators of this pragmatic innovation. The Chief Judge of Lagos State signed the “Lagos State Judiciary Remote Hearing of Cases (COVID-19 Pandemic Period) Practice Direction”

Justice John Tsoho, Chief Judge of the court. Nigeria’s Maiden Virtual Court Session . The first virtual court sitting in Nigeria was held on May 4 2020, at the Ikeja High Court, Lagos. The outcome of that case was the sentencing to death of a driver, Olalekan Hameed, for the murder of 76-year old Mrs Jolasun Okunsanya, on December 1, 2018.

Virtual Court Proceedings and its implementation. Virtual proceedings are simply proceedings conducted without the need for participants to be physically present. With the proposed introduction of virtual means to judicial proceedings in Nigeria, court hearings are now to be conducted without the physical presence of lawyers and litigants.. The national courts in several countries all over the ...

By Adenike Ayodele Some lawyers have commended the Lagos State Chief Judge, Justice Kazeem Alogba, for strengthening access to justice and prison decongestion through adoption of technology in hearing of criminal cases. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that recently technology was deployed via virtual hearing of cases of 234 inmates in

The first virtual court session in Nigeria, tagged ID/9006C/2019 held last Monday at the Ikeja High Court in Lagos, where one Mr. Olalekan Hameed was sentenced to death, for the murder of his employer 76-year-old, Mrs. Jolasun Okunsanya on December 1st, 2018.

When it eventually did through the directives of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) to various heads of courts to commence virtual hearings of cases, arguments were raised with respect to the legality or constitutionality of the practice.For example, the Chief Judge of Lagos State, following this directive and the issuance of the NJC Guidelines ...

3.1 The emergence and development of virtual court proceedings in Nigeria. The use of Audio Visual Links (AVL) or video conferencing pre-existed Covid-19 and dates back to the 1990s when AVL was adopted for expert and vulnerable witnesses. 16 As far back as 2010, the United Kingdom permitted defendants to take pleas virtually. 17 However, in Nigeria, the advent of VCP can be traced to 2020 ...

Section 6–10, of the Practice Direction for Remote Hearing of Cases in the Lagos State. ... 24 See Article 3, Practice Directions on Electronic Case Management and Virtual Court .

The Lagos State High Court had its first virtual or remote court hearing on May 4, 2020, where a driver, Olalekan Hameed, ... Expectedly, some other states of the federation’s Judiciary adopted the Lagos model to hear cases virtually in both civil and criminal proceedings. The Attorney General and Minister of Justice of

Although virtual courts have been hearing cases in Brazil, UK, China, Singapore, Bangladesh, Peru, Hungary and other countries, the need for it was intensified worldwide by COVID-19 pandemic. ... revealed that there are over 4,630 appeals and 6,207 motions pending in the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal alone as at December 1, 2020. ...

Nigeria’s Maiden Virtual Court Session . The first virtual court sitting in Nigeria was held on May 4 2020, at the Ikeja High Court, Lagos. The outcome of that case was the sentencing to death of a driver, Olalekan Hameed, for the murder of 76-year old Mrs Jolasun Okunsanya, on December 1, 2018.

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has rather paradoxically led to the emergence of virtual court in Nigeria. Nigeria Judiciary is one of the world judiciaries with the heaviest workloads and ...

The Lagos State Judiciary has released a new guidelines increasing the fee for Remote Court/Virtual Proceedings to the Sum of Thirty thousand Naira (N30,000) only The notice states that only the ACR Litigation – Lagos and Ikeja shall conduct or schedule cases for Virtual Proceedings in both High Court and Magistrates Courts in Lagos State.

This Bill is desirable and should proceed; however, my position is that pending its implementation which has to go through both the entire National Assembly, as well as all 36 Houses of Assembly in each states of Nigeria, there is nothing unconstitutional about the current remote or virtual sitting practised in Lagos or Borno state, or any state in Nigeria, as long as the practice procedure is ...

Superior Courts of Records, thereby neglecting the lower courts. In the course of this paper, the writers deployed the ... The first virtual court in Nigeria was set up in Borno State in early ... homicide.16 After that, the Lagos State High Court adopted the virtual proceedings on May 4 2020. This happened when the Lagos State High Court ...

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