Federal High Court ends manual filing of cases April 24 as electronic filing begins 27

The Federal High Court of Nigeria has said that it volition formally terminate the manual filing of lawsuit connected April 24 successful keeping with the tone of precocious exertion successful the state arsenic being done successful different parts of the world.

Consequently, the tribunal indicated that a aviator physics filing besides known arsenic e-filing level volition go operational successful its Lagos Judicial Division with effect from 27th April, 2026.

Acting Chief Registrar of the court, Mr Yahaya Yakubu Shafa who confirmed this successful a connection connected Monday successful Abuja said that each caller filings shall henceforth beryllium conducted exclusively done the e-filing platform.

However, each matters instituted astatine the tribunal anterior to the go-live day shall proceed to beryllium processed manually until judgement is delivered and specified matters are yet disposed of.

To guarantee a seamless transition, each ineligible practitioners are required to get their ineligible message accounts anterior to the spell unrecorded date, arsenic possession of a ineligible message code is simply a mandatory prerequisite for entree to the e-filing platform.

The acting Chief Registrar explained that each documents requiring oath medication indispensable besides beryllium processed done the e-affidavit level but nevertheless clarified that the deponent indispensable physically look earlier a Commissioner for Oaths for the medication of the oath.

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