Federal High Court Announces Annual Vacation Date

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Justice Abdullahi Abdu-Kafarati, the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, on Monday, released a timetable for the annual vacation for the Federal High Court nationwide.

He announced that the Federal High Court would proceed on its annual vacation for the year 2018 from Monday, July 9 to Friday, September 14, 2018.

According to Justice Abdu-Kafarati, the announcement was pursuant to the Provisions of order 46, rule 4(d) of the Federal High Court (civil) Procedure rules 2009.

The court is to resume on Monday, September 17, 2018.

During the vacation, only core stations will usually remain functional and the litigating public will be at liberty to approach any of the functional courts.

He explained that the Abuja division would cater for cases from the Federal Capital Territory, north-central, north-west, and north-eastern parts of the country.

On the other hand, the Lagos Division would cater for the western part of the country while Port Harcourt would cater for the south-south and south-eastern parts of the country.

But Justice Abdu-Kafarati emphasised that during the vacation, only extreme urgent cases, arrest of ship, and fundamental rights cases would be entertained.

Judges penned for vacation are Justice Babatunde Quadri and Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Abuja Division.

Others are Justice Chuka Obiozor and Justice Muslim Hassan of the Lagos Division, and the Port Harcourt Division has Justice Hillary Oshomah and Justice Adamu Mohammed.