FEDERAL HIGH COURT [ASSET MANAGEMENT CORPORATION OF NIGERIA (AMCON)] RULES 2018

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FEDERAL HIGH COURT (ASSET MANAGEMENT CORPORATION OF NIGERIA, AMCON) RULES, 2018

ARRANGEMENT OF ORDER

ORDER 1 – OBJECTIVES AND APPLICATION

1.       Objectives

2.       Application

ORDER 2 – CASE MANAGEMENT

1.       Case Management

2.       What Case Management entails

ORDER 3 – PLACE AND MODE OF COMMENCEMEENT OF ACTION

1.       Place of institution of action

2.       Mode of commencement of action

3.       AMCON claims which may be begun by writ

4.       Mode of commencing AMCON claims by writ of summons

5.       Form for service outside Nigeria form 2

6.       AMCON claims which may be begun by originating summons

7.       Mode of commencing AMCON claims by Mode of commencing AMCON claims by

8.       Life span of AMCON claim

9.       AMCON claim which may be begun by petition

10.     Content of the petition

11.     Service o AMCON processes

12.     Defendant represented by legal practitioner

13.     Late appearance

ORDER 4 – SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE ACT

1.       Interim relief to be by motion ex parte

ORDER 5 – SPEED AND EFFICIENCY IN COPURT PROCEEDINGS

1.       Trial schedule

ORDRE 6 – ELECTRONIC FILING

1.       E-Filing

2.       Validity of filing of e-filing document

ORDER 7 – IRREGULARITY

1.       Defects in form

ORDER 8 – SERVICE OF PROCESS

1.       Service with jurisdiction

2.       Service out of jurisdiction

3.       Order to fix time for appearance

4.       Service of Notice

5.       Service of originating summons etc.

6.       Service abroad by letter of request

7.       Service of document abroad

8.       Saving for other mode of service

9.       Courier or other mode of service

10.     Service for foreign Tribunals

11.     Substituted service

12.     Order thereon

13.     When violence threatened

14.     Affidavit of service

15.     Expenses of service

16.     Service on Sunday or Public Holiday

17.     Recording of service

ORDER 9 – JUDGMENT IN DEFAULT OF APPEARANCE OR DEFENCE

1.       Judgment in default of appearance or defence

2.       Default judgment may be set aside

3.       When court may vary or set aside default judgment

ORDER 10 – SUMMARY JUDGMENT

1.       Summary judgment

2.       Summary judgment procedure

3.       Service of summary judgment application

4.       Motion of intention to defend

5.       Admission

6.       Oral evidence

7.       Payment plan

ORDER 11 – SETTLEMENT OUT OF COURT AND SETTLEMENT OF ISSUES

1.       Period for settlement

2.       Formulation of issues for determination

3.       Party may apply for issues to be tried

4.       Formulation of issues by court

ORDER 12 – INTERIM REMEDIES

1.       Orders for interim remedies

2.       Time when an order for an interim remedy may be made

3.       Undertaking as to damages

4.       Order for sale of perishables

5.       Detention, preservation of inspection of property in litigation

6.       Visit to the locus in quo

ORDER 13 – INTERLOCUTORY APPLICATIONS

1.       Where to apply

2.       Notice of application

3.       What an application shall include

ORDER 14 – ARREST OF ABSCONDED DEFENDANT

1.       Defendant leaving jurisdiction or removing property

2.       Bail for appearance or satisfaction

3.       Deposit in lieu of bail

4.       Committal in default of security

5.       Cost of subsistence of person arrested

ORDER 15 – FORECLOSURE AND REDEMPTION

1.       Claim for form foreclosure and redemption

ORDER 16 – EFFECT OF NON-COMPLIANCE

1.       Effect of non-compliance

ORDER 17 – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISION

1.       Orders to be made

2.       Where no rules exist

3.       Interpretation

4.       Citation

Schedule

FEDERAL HIGH COURT ASSETS MANAGEMENT CORPORATION OF NIGERIA (AMCON) RULES, 2018

[Commencement]                                                                              [13^th Day of December, 2018]

In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 254 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I, ADAMU ABDU-KAFARATI, Honourable Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, hereby make the following rules –

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