Adejumo charges court registrars on probity

He gave the advice last Friday during the opening of a two-day capacity building workshop organized for legal officers of the Federal High Court.He described the participants as the first set of people that the litigants would have first contact with in the court, adding that no matter what a judge does without the cooperation […]

He gave the advice last Friday during the opening of a two-day capacity building workshop organized for legal officers of the Federal High Court.
He described the participants as the first set of people that the litigants would have first contact with in the court, adding that no matter what a judge does without the cooperation of the participants, “judges cannot do justice”.
He urged the participants to be courteous in the discharge of their functions.
 He warned the legal officers against leaking  or selling court judgments, saying that the problems such act could cause would be above their level.
Justice Adejumo mentioned instances where legal officers leaked court judgments but which was later changed by the judge a few days to the delivery of the leaked judgment which landed the affected officers in trouble. He said that two legal officers were dismissed recently by the National Industrial Court for attempting to leak a judgment.
Senator Dahiru Tambuwal, chairman Senate committee on judiciary informed that the National Assembly has approved that the number of judges at the Federal High Court should be increased to 100.
According to him, the Bill is awaiting the assent of President Jonathan before it can be passed into law.
Declaring the workshop open, Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta described the workshop as one of the most important workshops that would take place this year.