5TH - 9TH NOVEMBER 2012

THE SQUIB DIARY
MONDAY 5^TH NOVEMBER 2012

Lagos State High Court Settlement Week begins. No court session all week long. Isn’t that interesting? But what will the judges be doing? Oh, don’t worry about that; they are off to a foreign land (some say Gabon, some say Canada) for “further education.” I hear you.

One Lagos State Judge did not go for the “educational trip” for he needed it not again. After all he’s just been elevated to the Court of Appeal and sworn in today as a judge. His name? Habeeb Olawale Abiru J.C.A. The Supreme Court just round the corner .

Tigers monthly meeting today. Lively and interesting as usual. A member who advertised drugs to prevent prostate enlargement and enhance sexual libido in men was asked whether her confident sale pitch was from point of experience.

TUESDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 2012

The high courts are shut. No judge around. Went to the Tigers lair in the noon. Spent useful time playing the arbitrator. No fees, sha O. Received a gift from Tiger Chief who just returned from the U.S. The gift? Just “Agege Bread.” Later went to chambers. To do chambers work.

WEDNESDAY 7^TH NOVEMBER 2012

High court, Lagos State, still shut down. The judges, abroad. “Settlement Week” in progress. The court rooms turned to “Settlement Rooms.” A graduate of the Nigerian Law School is said to be a “Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.” He is no way described as Mediator and Arbitrator of the Supreme Court. Something is seriously missing. There is a lot to question about the imposed nature of the MEDIATION PRACTICE in the Lagos state Judiciary.

In the afternoon, went to Ogun State. Over a land issue between a client and “omo onile.”

THURSDAY 8^TH NOVEMBER 2012

Landed in the Tigers’ Lair quite early in the morning. Did much of gecko labour and a few Bar matters till late in the afternoon. The Squib professor of law brought to the lair his new car. Joined in a drive-about celebration.  

FRIDAY 9^TH NOVEMBER 2012

Squib production in full throttle.

15TH - 19TH OCTOBER 2012

Squib Diary

MONDAY 15^TH OCTOBER 2012

Was at the Igbosere Magistrate Court. For a matter. Did not go on. Absent prosecutor, the cause. Had to sail back to the mainland to settle down at ‘The Lair’ Ikeja High Court.

 

TUESDAY 16^TH OCTOBER 2012

At ‘The Lair’ today, after some hours in chambers.

 WEDNESDAY 17TH OCTOBER 2012

Was at the High Court Ikeja. For a case before Oyewole J. (variously being speculated about as the next Chief Judge of Osun State, come November 2012). Matter could not proceed. Milord, absent. Very unusual of him. Later went to Ibadan with some other Tigers to attend the Layi Babatunde SAN Inter-Faculties of Law Annual quiz competition and lecture at the Faculty of Law of the Premier University.

Guest lecturer was Dayo Akinlaja SAN the Attorney general and Commissioner for Justice, Ekiti State. The quiz was fun despite a fumbling quiz master. The winner of the quiz was, your guess is as good as mine: LASU (greatest of the greatest)!

 

THURSDAY 18^TH OCTOBER 2012

Was in chambers, all morning till noon. As Acting 'Chair,' presided over Tiger Bar ‘Exco’ meeting. Smooth, snappy affair. Some officers barely met the closing prayer.

 FRIDAY 19TH OCTOBER 2012

Early morning downpour. Yet had to go down to the island for two cases. One in the Magistrate Court. The other, High Court.

Criminal trial at the High Court went on. That of the magistrate court, stalled. Magistrate came very late. Reportedly went to sit for a promotional exam at Ikeja in the morning.

Ademola Adewale, Squib’s Professor of Law, the second longest running columnist of the Squib, held an open house at the Tiger Bar Centre; to mark his 26^th years of the call to the Bar. Prof was called to the Bar on 18^th October nineteen gbogboro yeepa!

The open house, geckos said was simple but sweet. Long live the Prof!