By Chinyere Omeire
Global pandemic, Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), and its attendant restrictions have resulted in some new ways of doing things as governments, organisations, groups and even individuals struggle to survive.
In Nigeria’s judiciary, lockdowns following outbreak of the pandemic on Feb. 27, 2020, crippled justice administration as court activities nationwide were halted in an effort to curb the spread.
Many lawyers and litigants, thus, decried delay in accessing justice.
Thinking out the box, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Muhammad, gave a directive to heads of courts at federal and state levels to adopt virtual court sittings to ameliorate the difficulty in justice dispensation.
By Chinyere Omeire
Lagos, Jan. 2, 2021 Some mediation Advocates in Lagos have cited the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) as the would be most sought-after resolution medium in the near future in the country, because of its efficacy in fast tracking justice administration.
In separate interviews with newsmen on Saturday, the experts, therefore, called for more aggressive measures to be put in place to ensure that only cases that must go to litigation were sent to the courts for adjudication.
Mr Adeyemi Akisanya, a lawyer and a member of the Standing Conference of Mediation Advocates Advisory Board (SCMA), told NAN that ADR had helped parties to identify the underlying interests in a dispute and totally address it.