Kwara Speaker calls for sanctioning of lawyers with "frivolous cases"

Date: 2017-08-10

Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Dr. Ali Ahmad has suggested that Nigerian Justice System should introduce sanctions to deal with lawyers that usually approach courts with "frivolous appeals", which waste a lot of time and delay justice dispensation.

This, according to Ahmad ,would greatly decongest the courts and compel lawyers to verify the kind of cases they would bring before the courts for hearing, as it is the standard practice in the developed world.

The Speaker, according to the press release issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Shuaib Abdulkadir, said this during the Technical Session of the on-going National Summit on Justice organised by the Federal Ministry of Justice in Abuja on Wednesday.

He added that such introduction would undoubtedly guide the profession, make lawyers to be very cautious in cases they would involve in and enhance the justice sector.

Citing examples of some developed countries, the legislator maintained that no lawyer without legally justifiable cause of action would approach the courts or seek redress.

He explained that once the opposing lawyer is able to establish before the judge that the case is frivolous, such defaulter would be made to pay heavily for wasting court's time and have effect on his or her practice.

While lamenting series of anomalies in the sector, the Speaker challenged the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) to address those challenges with a view to reform the justice system and enhance national development.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     CCB     Mohammed Katsina Ahmed     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Saad Omo Iya     Government House     Na\'Allah     Ibrahim Oniye     Abubakar B.M     Biliaminu Aliu     Bola Magaji     Olupako     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Kola Olota     Olayinka Olaogun     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Bahago     Esinrogunjo     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Lanre Issa Onilu     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Sheikh Ariyibi     EFCC     Boko Haram     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     LABTOP     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Alfa Yahaya Road     Nigeria Computer Society     Henry Olaosebikan     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Okeose Christian Cementary     Oniwa     Awili Pedro     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Post Utme     Hussein Olokooba     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Razak Atunwa     KW-GIS     Maigidasanma     Saka Saadu     Sarakite     Monthly Sanitation     Zainab Abass     Rihanat Ajia     Awodun     Nigerian Army     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     Gobir Organization Foundation     Sarah Alade     Ishola Abdullahi     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Salihu Ajia     Quarry Royal Valley     Femi Oladiji     Ilorin Central Mosque     Nurudeen Muhammed     Niyi Osundare     Olaiya Zuberu     Quran     Yakubu Gobir     Abdulrazaq Sanni     Communication Network Support Services     Makama Of Ilorin     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Ayekale     Isiaka Gold     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     S.O. Opowoye     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Curfew     JAMB     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Tosin Saraki     Mohammed Saidu     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Sadiq Umar     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Pakata     Ilofa     Oniwasi Agbaye     Bahago     Sunday Popo-Ola     Okedare     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Jumoke Monsura Gafar     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Oko Erin     LEAH Charity Foundation     Shururat Olatinwo     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Tunde Saad     Oba Of Jebba     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Frootify     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Rasaq Jimoh     Babatunde Idiagbon     VADA     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Harafat E. Mukadam     Femi Agbaje     Femi Ogunsola     Surajudeen Akanbi     Aliyu Alhassan     Balogun Gambari     Erubu Oba Zubair     Riskat Opakunle     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Saidu Yaro Musa     Elerinjare     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Jelili Yusuf     Ishola Abdullahi     Yusuf Amuda Abubakar     Mazars Consulting     Yoonus Lawal     Saka Saadu     Owo Isowo     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Kayode Laro     Bamidele Adegoke     Alore     Ekiti     Offa Descendants Union     Ebola     Femi Gbajabiamila     Maryam Nurudeen     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     Alikinla     Javed Khan     Olatinwo     Al-Adaby     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     Kwara State Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Ashiru     Ajasse-Ipo     Roheemat Hammed     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     AGILE Programme     Ope Saraki     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula