ICT to cater for emerging challenges of globalisation – PCA

The President of the Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, has said that the ICT department of the court is undergoing re-designing to cater for emerging challenges of globalisation. On completion, the infrastructure will enable the Court of Appeal to effectively utilise the Nigerian case management system and video conferencing, electronic document management […]

The President of the Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, has said that the ICT department of the court is undergoing re-designing to cater for emerging challenges of globalisation.
On completion, the infrastructure will enable the Court of Appeal to effectively utilise the Nigerian case management system and video conferencing, electronic document management and internet protocol telephony throughout the 16 divisions of the court.
Bulkachuwa was speaking when she received in audience the visiting chief justices from the Caribbean who were on a fact finding mission on how to develop their country’s case management system.
She said that plans were in top gear to key into the Nigeria Case Management System being anchored by the National Judicial Council (NJC), through the Judicial Information Technology Policy Committee.
To meet this objective, the Court of Appeal has engaged the services of an ICT consultant from the academia to work with the standing ICT Committee, chaired by Amina Adamu Augie, OFR, the presiding justice of Lagos Division and the ICT Unit, to rebuild the data centres and network infrastructures in all the divisions.
The active case management system aimed at promoting best practices which will enable the court to adopt best skills and techniques that will ensure efficiency in the speedy dispensation of justice.
Bulkachuwa had informed her visitors of efforts already put in place to fast track appeals through the 2014 Practice Direction.
Responding on behalf of his colleagues, the visiting Chief Justice of the Bahamas, Justice Harman Longley, said they were impressed with the ongoing technological advancements recorded in the Nigerian Judiciary.
Four justices from the Caribbean are currently on fraternisation tour to sign an MOU in a bid to promote technical cooperation between the countries.
The justices are Justice Harman Longley, Chief Justice of Bahamas, Hon. Justice Ivor Archie, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago, Justice Janice Pereira, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court  of the Eastern Caribbean and Justice Martson Gibson, Chief Justice of Barbados.