A judge of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, Justice J.D. Peter, has ordered activist lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), to appear before him over comments credited to him.

Falana was reported to have said that Nigerian courts had become “supermarkets where only the rich do their shopping” during the opening of the Enugu branch of the Nigerian Bar Association Law Week.

The Lagos lawyer was the guest speaker at the event. The theme of the event was Corruption and the Justice Sector: Implications for the Rule of Law and Democracy.

Attorney generals who can’t enforce court orders should resign — Falana

The lawyer was also said to have attacked the NBA for condoning corruption, saying that the body’s national election had become even more expensive than a governorship election, with each candidate spending as much as N700m during the association’s presidential poll.

Falana asked the National Judicial Council and the NBA to restore integrity to the judiciary by identifying and exposing corrupt judges and lawyers.

However, a lawyer from Falana’s chambers had on March 28 appeared before Justice Peter, who sits in Court 5 at the Lagos Division of the National Industrial Court.

The lawyer appeared in the court regarding a case, marked NICN/LA/601/2012 involving Chief Ebenezer Ayodele Obadimu vs G. CAPPA Plc.

Falana’s chambers is representing the judgment-creditor in the case and had then taken an application seeking to enforce the judgment through a garnishee procedure before Justice Peter.

However, before the lawyer from Falana’s chambers could make his submissions, the judge drew the counsel’s attention to an online publication in which Falana had described courts as “supermarkets where only the rich do their shopping”.

The judge subsequently adjourned the case for Falana to appear personally in court to explain “if he obtained the judgment by purchase from the judicial supermarket and for how much”.

He adjourned the case till May 13, stressing that Falana must appear in court to say how much he paid for the judgment which he sought to enforce.

freeze001:
This is what happens when a culture of institutional disregard and disrespect becomes the order of the day. Some idiots get too comfortable and forget that they must be circumspect at all times.

I hope he will not stupidly tell the court that it doesn't have power to summon him like Sagay told the NASS.

hucienda:
Falana? the APC lawyer? Over to him.

sarrki:



Mothers are good teachers

Some are not

They like a lawless society

So Sagay cannot express himself anymore ?

Oya the Senate should also come for us that speaks our mind out

freeze001:


Of course! I trust u to totally avoid the substance of the post and get hung up on peripheral issues. Falana has also spoken his mind abi?

sarrki:



He spoke the minds of millions of Nigerians

The truth is we lack confidence in the judiciary

I know he will honor the invitation

Is as simple as ABC

Freedom of speech is now a crime?

Attorney generals who can’t enforce court orders should resign — Falana

freeze001:
This is what happens when a culture of institutional disregard and disrespect becomes the order of the day. Some idiots get too comfortable and forget that they must be circumspect at all times.

I hope he will not stupidly tell the court that it doesn't have power to summon him like Sagay told the NASS.

freeze001:


http://punchng.com/court-summons-falana-over-supermarket-judgment-comments/

qualityovenbake:
I agree with him that the judiciary is corrupt but never the less we still have some good lawyers that will never sell their conscience.