enabling
the
Court
more
effectively
to
exercise
its
jurisdiction”. This provision has to do with the powers or the
jurisdiction of the Federal High Court as duly constituted
under Section 253 of the Constitution.
That is, that “the
Federal High Court shall be duly constituted if it consists of at
least one Judge of that Court”. I should think that the special
dispensation granted to the “Judge of the High Court
elevated to the Court of Appeal – to continue to sit as a High
Court Judge only for the purpose of concluding any partheard criminal matter pending before him at the time of his
elevation” cannot be accommodated under or by Section 252
of the Constitution. I must point out, right away, that by the
tenor of Section 253 of the Constitution, the Federal High
Court is not duly constituted by Judge(s) who had ceased to
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