Court of Appeal (Fast Track) Practice Directions, 2014

1.

Unless the context dictates otheiAvise, the following terms have the meanings respectively assigned to them-

"appeal" includes interlocutory appeal;

"appellant" means the party who brings the appeal and includes a Legal Practitioner acting on his behalf;

"brief" includes written address and written submissions ;

"case management conference" means a meeting convened by the Court of its own initiative or at the request of a party to agree on how best to speed up the appeal or any part of it;

"Court" means the Court of Appeal;

"court document" means a document issued by the Court or filed or generated by the parties relative to proceedings, and includes affidavits, applications, briefs, bundles, charges, exhibits, information, judgments, notices, orders, pleadings, proofs of evidence, records, summonses and witness statements;

"debt appeal" means an appeal to the Court by or against a debt resolution agency in connection with the agency's statutory duties, functions, objects, operations, powers or transactions;

"debt resolution agency" includes the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria;

"division" means Judicial Division of the Court;

"document" means Court document, and includes anything in which information of any description is recorded or stored, including information held in an electronic format;

"fast-track appeal" means any of the following :

-Debt appeals

-Appeals pertaining to or connected with :

-Corruption:

- Human Trafficking

- Kidnapping

- Money Laundering

- Rape

- Terrorism

* Appeals by or against such national human rights, intelligence, law enforcement, prosecutorial or security agencies such as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, National Human Rights Commission, the State Security Service.