Vacation For High Court
High Court and the Supreme Court vacations have started. The 4 week break will be a great time for some respite after the chaos of selection and examination.
Each year Supreme Court Justices take vacations that give lighter workloads to the office. In a word, they must be given vacations every year as per their job requirements.
As I was sitting here, I just received a group of documents relating to the vacation of your client’s matter set for next week. My understanding is that an email was sent out last week to you and opposing counsel announcing the proceed with notice; however no response has been filed either way.
Vacation For High Court
It was once said that justice delayed is justice denied. This most famous quote of the American Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis represents a statement made during a time that is long since past. In the United States, the legal system has 50 states and two territories for each state which house their own courts and statewide laws. America used to little concern with the idea of different laws from one state to the next, but in this age of national focus on social equality and technological advancement, it’s become a serious conflict of interest between state laws. The highest civil court in the land, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) rarely takes on cases concerning more than one state at a time. They’d much rather focus on larger issues such as immigration reform and economic policy. Because SCOTUS lacks attention on smaller cases such as local law disputes, lower-level courts have taken over areas such as taxes and education. The problem with having thousands of different judges and no defined national law is that there’s no consistency from one state to another. This leaves many people confused when they visit or move to another state because they don’t know what the rules are going to be like from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
Federal High Court to begin annual vacation
During such vacations, the court will continue all other operations such as receiving court filings, but only judges designated to entertain emergency cases are permitted to sit during the period.
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The Federal High Court will on July 25, begin annual long vacation for the year 2022.
The circular issued on Wednesday quoted the Chief Judge of the Court, John Tsoho, as stating: “The vacation is to begin from Monday July 25, and end on Friday September 16.
“During the vacation, only the core stations namely: Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt will remain functional: litigating public are at liberty to approach only these courts.”
The circular signed by Catherine Christopher, assistant director of information at the court, explained that “the long vacation is observed annually, pursuant to the provisions of Order 46 rule 4 (a) of the Federal High Court Civil Procedure Rules, 2019 (as amended).“
During such vacations, the court will continue all other operations such as receiving court filings, but judges would generally not conduct sittings. Only judges designated to entertain emergency cases are permitted to sit during the period.
The circular designates Abuja division of the court to cater for cases from the Federal Capital Territory, north central, north-western, and the north-eastern parts of the country during the vacation period.
The Lagos division is to cater for cases from the western parts of the country, while the Port Harcourt division will cater for cases from the South-south and South-east.
Ahmed Mohammed, Emeka Nwite and Justice Nkeonye Maha will preside over cases of “extreme urgency” in Abuja division of the court.
