BREAKING: Supreme Court Affirms Virtual Sitting

The Supreme Court on Monday struck out the suits filed by Lagos Attorney General and Ekiti state governments of the Virtual court sittings.

The seven-member panel of the court held that the suit filed by the two plaintiffs is speculative and the court does not act on speculation.

Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour, who sits as Judge at the Supreme Court declared that Virtual court sittings procedure are constitutional, stating that virtual court sitting is not unconstitutional.

The Attorney General of Lagos State had asked the court for an interpretation of section 274 of the constitution which empowers the CJN and heads of court to give practice directives to the court.

The bill to pass virtual court proceedings into law has scaled through the 2nd reading at the senate, this the Attorney General said is an infringement on section 274 of the constitution.

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He noted that the cause of action for the suit arose from section 39 of the constitution which gives every citizen of Nigeria the right to fair hearing.

The Attorney General of Lagos State, Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), however, withdrew the suit after the seven-man panel of the apex described it as speculative.

Details later…

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