URGENT APPLICATION

• Date: 06 February 2019

"Whether a matter or application is urgent or not is a question for the learned trial Judge and this fact can only be determined in an application filed in Court in accordance with the Rules of Court. The Court must be satisfied that there is urgent need for the hearing to take place during the annual vacation. (See Re Showerings Vine Products & Whiteways Ltd. (1968) 3 All E.R. 276). There is no assumed urgency. Facts indicating urgency are facts relevant to the cause or matter not arising from the disposition or deployment, redeployment or transfer of the learned trial Judge." - Per Obaseki, J.S.C., in Oborevbori Itaye & Ors. v. Chief...