Justice Emmanuel Akomaye Agim of the Supreme Court of Nigeria has delivered a stinging rebuke to legal practitioners, declaring that lawyers bear primary responsibility for most weaknesses in the country’s justice delivery system, including conflicting judgments, delayed trials, and abuse of court processes.
Speaking at the Akaraiwe & Associates 5th Annual Lecture in Enugu on Thursday, Justice Agim pushed back against the growing tendency of legal practitioners to publicly blame courts exclusively for failures in the administration of justice.
“Experience through the cases show that the practices of legal practitioners are in most situations the primary causes of most of these weaknesses because they start the processes that create each weakness,” Justice Agim stated Read More From Source/Original…