Federal High Court faults Fintiri’s lawyers on judgment

In a statement issued yesterday in Abuja, the court said that the judge was entitled to seven days within which to get the judgment ready.
Citing Section 294(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended and 2:7 of the Code of Conduct for Judicial officers, the court said that there was no basis for counsel to allege that they were not given copies of the judgment.
The court also said that a lawyer from the Chambers of Bayo Ojo (SAN) the counsel to Fintiri, Mr Theophilus Okwute, collected a copy of the judgment yesterday.