Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said that the corona virus was somewhat a blessing in disguise especially for the judiciary seeing that it fast tracked the process of e-filing of all previous case files.

He also added that the computerization of court proceedings over the years, the endorsement of virtual court proceedings by a Supreme Court ruling is wise as it has saved “our system of justice another catastrophic round of technical decisions around the constitutionality of virtual proceedings”, among other issues.

The Vice President stated this on Thursday at a webinar on media coverage of virtual court proceedings in Nigeria, organized by the Gavel International Limited.

According to Prof. Osinbajo, “we are at a point where at least we know that virtual hearings are legal. This means that the Supreme Court is satisfied that appropriate means can be found to ensure that hearings are public and that the press and indeed members of the public can access the proceedings.

“I think that an opportunity that this offers us is to get rid of this issue of technicality as much as possible. And I am so pleased that the Supreme Court did not even hesitate in saying that virtual proceedings are legal. It is really a breath of fresh air considering the ways that we tend to magnify the issue of technicality to the point where you wonder where justice is.”

Continuing, the Vice President said “I am hoping that the opportunity we have in virtual proceedings will also be an opportunity to dispense with several of the unnecessary technical rules that we have in our adjectival law, laws of procedure, evidence and all that. And hopefully, we are able to get to the heart of trials and the heart of the matter such that we are buck down unnecessarily by technicality.”


Read more : https://www.chronicle.ng/2020/09/osinbajo-commends-supreme-courts-virtual-proceedings-ruling/

A wise man sees opportunities during challenges and trial. COVID19 (though a challenge) has opened our eyes to so many things we don't know or serious about before.

God bless Nigeria.

The coronavirus opened our eyes to lots of opportunities and one of them is the use of technology for virtually everything. IT is changing the way things work and we just have to follow suite.

Corona virus is really a blessing in disguise and a real eye opener for many of us. Opportunities that we never believed exist are paying off. We only have to look within

Plenty opportunities have come during this challenges of COVID19