The Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Justice Hussein Baba Yusuf, on Monday, bemoaned the lack of courtrooms for Magistrates to conduct cases within Abuja and its environs.
He stressed that despite the fact that the FCT High Court has a total complement of 58 judges, yet, “the courts are being overstretched to its fullest elastic capacity in terms of caseload.” “The process of digitisation of the FCT courts will enter its next phase this legal year to effectively integrate a case management system. Our target is for the courts to go electronic and paperless.
On the performance of the court in the last legal year, Justice Baba-Yusuf, said: “For the records, the FCT High Court officially commenced the 2022/2023 Legal Year on Monday, October 17, 2022. “As the 2022/2023 Legal Year wound up, there were 13,996 pending cases, covering both civil and criminal matters, at the Magistrate Court.