Below are the steps he took and comments as to whether it was the right step or the wrong one: 1. Took his processes for initialing. This is a manual time and date stamp on your processes by the commissioner for oath: its relevance is not yet ascertained especially if you do not complete the process of filing on the same day 2. Take the process to be assessed to know the amount to be paid (he understood that court fees will be increased soon…. he has no direct knowledge of this nor the basis for it) 3. Generate a temporary suit number at the Judiciary Information Service. This however can be done at your office before coming to file at the court by signing on to your JIS account (if you have one) 4. Go to the cashiers who will issue you a teller (for all transactions above N2000 must be paid into a bank… Must be Skye bank only) : this is where a lot of your time starts to go to waste 5. Go to the bank and queue, pay and wait for the treasury receipt which may take up to 30mins or more 6. Take your teller and receipt outside the high court complex and make 4 copies each of the teller and receipt 7. Go back to the Registry with all the copies, pay N700 for a file 8. Don’t forget to go back to the commission for oaths to stamp all depositions and exhibits 9. Take it back to the assessors to seal your processes 10. Take your file to the litigation desk… They may ask you to go make a copy of the file receipt…if you are brave or to tired to go out again just tell them off… In a nice way… Of course 11. They tell you that you can now go and check back for your permanent suit number POST FILLING 1. Your processes are sent to the Judiciary Information Service Lagos state judiciary for scanning for uploading and the digitalizing process 2. After all payments are verified, it is sent back to the registry for assignment of a permanent suit number 3. The file is sent to the sheriff department for service….. By this time you would have been overseeing the process yourself by physically going to the court every day or else.. 4. The sheriff will not serve but wait for you to come SEE HIM. You may have to cough out as much as 5k for this… Which includes obtaining a proof of service… WITHOUT A PROOF OF SERVICE YOUR PROCESSES WILL COOL OFF IN THE RECORDS SECTION UNTIL IT DIES OF NEGLECT 6. If you are smart enough you will get the sheriff sorted out, proof of service uploaded and the Records department to send your file for assignment According to Bayo “this is how simple it is to file a fresh matter. It will take longer time for the Chief Judge to see your file and assign it to a judge is not known‎ and for your case to get hearing date. Let the the Chief Judge decide that”. He said” GENTLEMEN OF THE BAR, what exactly is our NBA Branch leaders doing to save lawyers from wasting their precious time filing cases, Registering a company, doing searches at the land registries? “Let’s engage positively, assist the government and especially the JUDICIARY to be more effective and productive. CLOG ALL LOOPHOLES THAT ENCOURAGE CORRUPT PRACTICES,” Mr Bayo stated. BAYO AKINLADE ESQ ]]>