PRESS RELEASE:

DIRECTIONS UNDER ORDER 46 RULE 4(E) AND 5 OF HIGH COURT (CIVIL PROCEDURE) RULES 2018:ANNUAL VACATION FOR THE YEAR 2020

EDO STATE JUDICIARY

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF REGISTRAR

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

BENIN CITY

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OUR REF. NO. CR/4930/VIII/1                                                 JULY, 2020

PRESS RELEASE

DIRECTIONS UNDER ORDER 46 RULE 4(E) AND 5 OF HIGH COURT (CIVIL PROCEDURE) RULES 2018:

ANNUAL VACATION FOR THE YEAR 2020

The general public is hereby notified that in compliance with the provisions of the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2018, the Chief Judge of Edo State, Hon. Justice E.A. Edigin has directed as follows:

1.     That the Annual Vacation of the High Court of Justice of Edo State shall commence on Monday, the 3^rd day of August, 2020 to Friday the 11^th day of September, 2020. Full judicial activities would commence on Monday the 14^th day of September, 2020.

2.     That during the Annual Vacation, there shall be:

One Vacation Judge in the State who shall sit in Benin Judicial Division, to entertain only urgent civil, revenue and criminal matters.    

3.     That the matters to be entertained by the Vacation Judge during the period shall be fresh matters of utmost urgency filed during the Vacation and not connected with matters already pending in the      Courts.

4.     That the Vacation Judge shall be Hon. Justice Efe Ikponmwonba of the High Court of Justice, Benin City.

5.     That cases pending before the regular Courts may however be heard with the leave of the Honourable Judge in charge of that Court and by the consent of learned Counsel to both parties.

Williams I. Aziegbemhin, Esq.

Chief Registrar