The Federal High Court Lagos on Tuesday, began decongestion and re-arrangement of court files, following resumption of court activities after the two-month-old strike by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria .The News Agency of Nigeria reports that registrars of various courts were busy sorting out court files, while others were seen moving files to different court rooms.
The strike was however, called off on June 9, after settlement talks had been reached between the union and relevant stakeholders.A NAN correspondent at the Federal High Court Lagos to review resumption, reports that registrars of the courts were all dutifully engaged in decongesting the court rooms and moving files around.
”The reasons files are being moved around is because of the change in nomenclature and courtrooms. We have new judges,” she said.NAN reports that few weeks before the JUSUN strike, some judges of the Federal High court were transferred to other jurisdictions. “So, let’s give them this week to look at their files as it is the first time they will be looking into the files and then give dates,” she said