the requisite” jurisdiction to conclude his part-heard matter in
the court from which he was elevated was/is still extant. The
learned senior counsel cannot advocate the contrary of the
decision appealed without the courtesy of a cross-appeal.
He filed no cross-appeal on behalf of the 1st Respondent.
Has the law espoused in OGBUNYINYA v. OKUDO
(supra), cited with approval in OUR LINE LTD V. SCC NIG.
LTD (supra), changed since 2015 upon the enactment of the
ACJA, 2015?
Mr. George E. Ukaegbu of counsel to the
Appellant has submitted that Section 396(7) of ACJA, 2015
“does not have the capacity of the import attributed to it as
that is tantamount to saying that by the said provision, the
National Assembly has amended the provisions of Section
250(2) and 253 of the 1999 Constitution which provisions the
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