Court of Appeal tackles backlog of 242 applications

Begins vacation on July 17

President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Adamu
Bulkachuwa, yesterday, said the appellate court has taken pragmatic
measures to ensure speedy disposition of pending applications.

This comes in the wake of her setting up of five task forces
made up of justices from less busy divisions of the court,
including Makurdi, Ilorin, Yola, Ekiti and Sokoto to reduce the
workload in Lagos, Benin, Port Harcourt, Enugu and Abuja .

The notice of the postings, personally signed by her, reads: ‘’I
believe we are now ready to face the challenges. Furthermore, they
are to reserve two weeks in the fourth quarter whereby they will
move to an identifiable division and preside over some of the
pending appeals thus reducing the workload in the said
divisions.’’

While the initiative had resulted in the many judgments being
delivered by the justices across the divisions within the timeframe
given to them by its president, a breakdown of the figure shows
that in Lagos division, the special taskforce from the Makurdi axis
gave 85 rulings.

The panel from Ilorin corridor which sat in Benin division,
ruled on 57 appeals in the period which ended on June 30, 2017
while that of Ekiti, which sat in Enugu axis, delivered 38
judgments.

Justices of Sokoto division, on a rescue mission to Abuja zone,
ruled on 31 appeals and struck out two matters while the justices
of Yola division dismissed 21 appeals in Port Harcourt
division. Meanwhile the annual vacation of the jurists
commences next Monday and ends on September 11.

Begins vacation on July 17

President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Adamu
Bulkachuwa, yesterday, said the appellate court has taken pragmatic
measures to ensure speedy disposition of pending
applications.

This comes in the wake of her setting up of five task forces
made up of justices from less busy divisions of the court,
including Makurdi, Ilorin, Yola, Ekiti and Sokoto to reduce the
workload in Lagos, Benin, Port Harcourt, Enugu and Abuja .

The notice of the postings, personally signed by her, reads: ‘’I
believe we are now ready to face the challenges. Furthermore, they
are to reserve two weeks in the fourth quarter whereby they will
move to an identifiable division and preside over some of the
pending appeals thus reducing the workload in the said
divisions.’’

While the initiative had resulted in the many judgments being
delivered by the justices across the divisions within the timeframe
given to them by its president, a breakdown of the figure shows
that in Lagos division, the special taskforce from the Makurdi axis
gave 85 rulings.

The panel from Ilorin corridor which sat in Benin division,
ruled on 57 appeals in the period which ended on June 30, 2017
while that of Ekiti, which sat in Enugu axis, delivered 38
judgments.

Justices of Sokoto division, on a rescue mission to Abuja zone,
ruled on 31 appeals and struck out two matters while the justices
of Yola division dismissed 21 appeals in Port Harcourt
division. Meanwhile the annual vacation of the jurists
commences next Monday and ends on September 11.