Today, I take a break from reviewing Guyana’s landlord-tenant laws to discuss a significant development in the country’s legal landscape. On February 14, 2025, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ...

The UK’s Practice Direction 51ZH launches a two year pilot to improve public access to documents used in hearings in certain business courts. Broadly, the practice direction is intended to move from ...

After a long hiatus, this writer appeared before a Magistrate court over a small claims case (less than N10 million liquidated money demand), and the experience before Magistrate Odubayo Oluwafumilayo ...

Guidance document describes the mediation process for any proceeding before the Competition Tribunal (Tribunal) by a judicial member of the Tribunal or the Federal Court Mediation is voluntary, can be ...

The Canadian Federal Court has issued a practice direction aimed at streamlining complex litigation. The practice direction formalizes and extends to all practice areas various initiatives that have ...

Although the National Industrial Court of Nigeria Practice Direction aims to promote access to justice and expeditious disposal of cases, Kingsley Ibe and Damilola Ajayi argue that this intention is ...

The Chief Judge of Edo State, Hon. Justice D.I. Okungbowa, has expressed readiness to issue a judicial practice direction that would streamline enforcement of Nigeria’s Freedom of Information Act ...

The Tribunal agreed with the Respondent that the Applicant must comply with the requirements for filing an application set forth in paras. 5, 6, 22 and 23 of Practice Direction No. 4 with respect to ...