Lawyer in trouble for testing Supreme Court’s finality, gets ban, N50m fine
According to the respondents, the application was not one that sought to correct a clerical error or accidental slip under the slip rule, but rather an impermissible attempt to review and set aside the Supreme Court’s verdict to pave the way for a fresh hearing.
The respondents argued that it is firmly settled that decisions of the Supreme Court are final, binding, and not subject to review, there being no constitutional or statutory provision permitting such action.
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The extent to which legal practitioners can stretch the provisions of Order 20 Rule 4 of the Supreme Court Rules 2024 became a matter of public discourse recently.
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