Before you sleep, i thought it would be wise to put you through on the meaning of the #PEPTLiveUpdates : Judge denies Peter Obi’s application.
Brief Interpretation of the DISMISSED Application by LP for Interrogatories (by Pearls’ TV & Team).
It basically means we cannot ask INEC (The first respondent) certain important questions with regards to their written addresses. Interrogatories are questions lawyers ask the other party in a case to enable them know what the other party intends to say in court and thus help them prepare Interrogatories are used to ensure the other party isn’t planning to spring any surprises on the other in court.
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It helps you know what to plan and prepare for Other purposes of Interrogatories are
1. Supporting the case of the Party
2. To weaken the case of the Party being interrogated.
3. To ascertain the opponents’ case.
4. To place facts on record that the opponent cannot deny.
The court has ruled that we cannot serve interrogatories on the first respondent because we filed our motion to serve such interrogatories out of time and we didn’t move a motion to serve such.
It simply means we won’t know what they intend to say in their written addresses until they serve us with such addresses; this MAY put us under pressure cos we wouldn’t have sufficient time to prepare I was hoping in the interest of fair hearing, my Lord would over look the procedural omission to file our application for interrogatories within time and at most, award cost to us.
Normally interrogatories are requested for and replied at the case management conference stage of a case ( the pre-trial stage), and we are already fully into trial. This is why his Lordship said we filed our application out of time. It was to have been filed far earlier.
– @MissPearls