CONFLICTING EXPARTE ORDERS: GOV. AKEREDOLU, JUSTICE RHODES-VIVOUR, AKPATA, OTHERS TO ADDRESS ISSUE AT NBA-SPIDEL WEBINAR
By Oki Samson, Trek Africa Newspaper
L-R: Retired Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour; Governor, Ondo State, Arakurin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu; President, NBA, Mr. Olumide Akpata, SAN and Chairman, NBA-SPIDEL, Dr. Monday Ubani
In order to arrest the ugly trend of incessant conflicting exparte orders arising from various courts of the land over political cases, the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL) is set to hold a webinar to address the issue on Tuesday 14th September, 2021. This information was made available to Trek Africa Newspaper through a press statement e-signed and released by the Chairman of the Section, Dr. Monday O. Ubani.
The statement reads: ‘The topic remains the contradictory exparte orders in political cases which have brought untold embarrassment to the entire legal community and by extension to the whole country. The topic which appears broad covers a number of very interesting but related matters like resurgence of conflicting exparte orders, forum shopping especially outside jurisdiction, the legal implications of such orders on the issue of fundamental and constitutional right of fair hearing, political, systemic implications on the polity, consequences for legal practitioners who file such processes or urge for such orders/ethical issues, consequences for the judges who dish out such questionable orders /prescribed statutory penalties, historical perspectives to this strange recurrence in our polity and many more.’
The webinar scheduled to start at 4pm on 14th September will have retired Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour of the Supreme Court lead the discussion by x-raying the entire concept of the discourse. Other speakers at the session include the Governor of Ondo state and former President of NBA, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), Chief Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), former President of NBA, Mr J.B. Daudu (SAN) and Mrs Justina Anayo Offiah (SAN) share their perspectives on the various sides to the topic. The panel session will be moderated by the immediate former Chairman of NBA-SPIDEL, Professor Paul Ananaba (SAN).
The webinar which is expected to draw a large audience comprising members of the Bench and Bar, Law Teachers, Law Students, Politicians, the Media and the general public will have the current President of the NBA, Mr Olumide Akpata. He will also be expressing the viewpoint of the NBA leadership on the ugly trend.
