A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday further adjourned till November 20 to undertake written addresses within the trial of a surgeon, Anuoluwapo Adepoju, charged with alleged evasion from an investigation right into a failed cosmetic surgery.
The case, which was scheduled for adoption of addresses on Tuesday, didn’t go on as earlier scheduled.
The case has, consequently, been adjourned till November.
The defendant is charged by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC).
She is standing trial alongside her clinic, MedContour Services Ltd, on a five-count cost bordering on a refusal to honour an invite for an investigation into post-body surgical procedure problems, in addition to the manufacturing of investigation paperwork.
She was re-arraigned on July 17, 2020, alongside her medical outfit, earlier than Justice Mohammed Liman.
She had pleaded not responsible to the costs and was granted bail on self-recognizance.
Justice Liman was subsequently transferred out of the Lagos division of the court docket, however he nonetheless presides over the case on a fiat.
The trial has since commenced within the go well with, and the FCCPC has additionally since closed its case.
The defence, on its half, filed a no-case submission for the defendant on the grounds that no case had been established towards her by the prosecution to warrant her coming into a defence.
Meanwhile, Justice Liman had, in a ruling delivered on April 7, 2022 rejected the no-case submission by the defendant.
He had dominated that the proof to date tendered earlier than the court docket satisfies the weather of the prison fees pending towards the defendant.
The court docket had then ordered the defence to open its case.
The case, nevertheless, suffered a number of adjournments on totally different dates for numerous causes.
On May 5 (this yr), the defence opened its case and known as the primary defendant as sole witness.
The defendant was led in proof and in addition cross-examined, after which the court docket adjourned the case till June 21 for the adoption of written addresses.
On June 21, the court docket didn’t sit, and the case was then adjourned till July 17 and once more adjourned till Oct. 24 (at present).
In the five-count cost introduced towards the defendants, the prosecution alleged that the primary defendant failed to seem earlier than the FCCPC in relation to an investigation right into a reported failed cosmetic surgery.
The defendant was alleged to have failed to point out up in compliance with the fee’s summons dated April 15, 2020.
The prosecution additionally alleged that with out enough trigger, the primary defendant additionally refused and failed to supply paperwork that she was required to supply in compliance with the fee’s discover of investigation dated April 14, 2020.
The defendant was alleged to have prevented and obstructed the fee from finishing up its investigation into the stated concern.
The offences contravenes the supply of sections 11(1)(a), 33(1)(a), 110, 113(1)(a) and 159(4) of the FCCPC Act, 2018. (NAN)