Federal High Court introduces e-filing in Lagos from April 27

The Federal High Court of Nigeria has announced that its physics filing, e-filing, strategy volition instrumentality effect successful the Lagos Judicial Division from April 27, 2026.

According to the court, April 24, 2026, has been acceptable arsenic the deadline for manual submission of caller cases successful the Lagos Division. After this date, each caller filings indispensable beryllium carried retired exclusively done the e-filing platform.

The tribunal clarified that cases instituted earlier the rollout day volition proceed to beryllium handled manually until they are concluded and judgments delivered.

The Acting Chief Registrar, Yahaya Yakubu Shafa, successful a connection warned ineligible practitioners against under-declaring claims oregon misrepresenting filed documents to trim filing fees.

“Legal practitioners are hereby advised that immoderate idiosyncratic who, whether deliberately oregon inadvertently, understates the magnitude claimed oregon inaccurately declares the fig oregon quality of documents filed, thereby resulting successful an under-assessment of the prescribed filing fees, shall beryllium required to wage the outstanding equilibrium successful summation to a punishment of N10,000 per filing,” the connection read.

To facilitate a creaseless transition, the tribunal directed each ineligible practitioners to get Legal Mail accounts earlier the commencement date, noting that su...