When the appeal was called an application was made for an accelerated hearing by learned counsel for the Respondent, the learned counsel representing the Appellant. Mr. F.R.A. Williams, Jnr. had no ob¬jection to the application. This Court, before making the order sought, then ob¬served, suo motu, that there is, on the record before it, a Court order which had been made by a Court of competent jurisdiction, that is, the Lagos High Court, since 15lh January 1982, and which order was not appealed against, whereby the Architects Registration Council, by any of its members, officers or servants per¬forming the duties in section 5 of the Architects (Registration etc.) Act 1969, No. 10 was ordered, upon being served with the Order, to register the Respondent, Prof. Fassasi, in that part of the Register of Architects, which contains the names of fully registered persons as architects and which would entitle the Respondent to practice as a principal architect, under the Act. The present appellant is at all material times the Acting Registrar of the Council.

This Court, after raising the issue, was informed that the order aforesaid has still not been carried out. The Court wanted to know why an order by the Court was not carried out by the parties including the Registrar (or Acting Registrar) of the Council.

Now, Chief Williams has complained that this order, by this Court, amounts to going above his head, as counsel, to his client, and in his years of practice (this is, no doubt, considerable), he has not been faced with such circumstance.