By R. A. C. E. Achara
We don’t need more than seven justices on our Supreme Court bench – one panel only of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and six justices of the court (JJSC) .
Low quality, inconsistent and sometimes incoherent reasoning precipitates the overflow of appeals that we now see.
A top quality bench of SC justices will give coherent guidance sufficient to stanch the avalanche of useless appeals.
Even less work will unnecessarily ascend and task our top court when the irrational requirement of volume rather than quality of advocacy in cases, is eliminated as criterion for the SAN privilege.
We play too much in this country…
Prof. R. A. C. E. Achara, Ph.D. (Nig.), Doctoral winner of the University of Nigeria Postgraduate Prize for Law; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Fellow of the Five College African Scholars Program; Millennial Chairman, NBA Enugu Branch 2000-2002; Principal, Prof. RACE Achara Law Chambers, New Haven, Enugu.
