Today has to go down as one of the most stressful days ever for me. I highly doubt anyone in this whole Abuja was as stressed as me today.
5:00am
Got up quite early today, which was probably due to me being in court with a strict senior lawyer. Was enroute to work moments later and as it is the case most times i was the first person to be at work (half of Lagos would definitely have gotten to work before me though).
8:30am
Had a few documents in the case file to sort out before heading to court. Preparing for a criminal trial in court is never easy.After I had a quick meal of bread and coffee.
All set for court
10:40am
The Court just resumed for the day. Judges have this bad habit of sitting later than the stipulated time. First order of the day was to read a judgment for a debt recovery case. Seems like it’s going to be a long day because reading judgments take time.
12:50pm
I said it! Can you imagine that the Judge just finished reading the judgement?? I slept soundly for most of it 😂. It went on for literally close to 2 hours. Makes you wonder how Judges sit and write that much. That’s one career-path i am super sure I won’t be following. Judges just keep writing and writing and it never seems to stop till they retire. Talk about living a boring stressful life.
3:30pm
The court is still sitting and at this point I was starting to get really frustrated. The only thing keeping me going is that the case going on inside quite an interesting one. It’s about a man accused of killing his wife and it’s at the cross examination stage. The man is insisting vehemently that he’s innocent of the crime but sadly it doesn’t work that way in the Court of law. It’s all about presenting hard evidence. Something the man doesn’t seem to have a lot of at the moment. I felt real pity for him, which is also partly due to the bullish way the prosecution counsel was going about the case. The stinging attacks and accusations he
kept launching at the accused man can take a real psychological toll on the man.
5:30pm
Never ever been in court at this time and it’s one thing I pray for this never to happen again in my practice years. It’s finally our matter and everyone is tired. We the counsels, our witness and even the Presiding Judge. Our matter goes quite smoothly, or so I feel because at this point I’m really not paying attention again. The hunger is real crazy.
7:00pm
Back in the office and I’m being told we still have a research to do. I just smile because I know there’s no way I’d be doing that after the kind of day I just had. Had my sumptuous jollof rice with a colleague, she was maybe hungrier than me 😂.
*Well it’s rice again
9:30am
Home now and i even have the strength to anything. Had a call with my mother and sister. And after it was time for my much needed good night rest.
Goodnight Steemit.