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Book Synopsis The Imperative of Legal Aid to Access to Justice in Nigeria by : Chukwudi Nwankwo
Download or read book The Imperative of Legal Aid to Access to Justice in Nigeria written by Chukwudi Nwankwo and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a presentation of the importance of legal aid for the effective provision of legal assistance and access to justice to the poor and indigent. This is against the backdrop that access to justice can only be realized when individuals approach the court to protect and defend their rights. Access to the courts is guaranteed for the poor and indigent when they are provided with legal assistance through any of the models discussed in this book. The operation of the legal aid system of Nigeria and other jurisdictions like the United Kingdom, United States of America, South Africa and other jurisdictions in Africa are analyzed and challenges identified. The way forward for the implementation of an effective legal aid system is also suggested in the book. The book is useful for practitioners and students of law in their practice and study of legal systems and the realization of justice through courts of law.
Book Synopsis Legal Aid Services in Nigeria by : Sylvia Ada Akpala
Download or read book Legal Aid Services in Nigeria written by Sylvia Ada Akpala and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Access to Justice in Africa and Beyond by :
Download or read book Access to Justice in Africa and Beyond written by and published by Ntl Inst for Trial Advocacy. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Justice and the Poor by : Reginald Heber Smith
Download or read book Justice and the Poor written by Reginald Heber Smith and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Access to Justice by : Deborah L. Rhode
Download or read book Access to Justice written by Deborah L. Rhode and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Equal Justice Under Law" is one of America's most proudly proclaimed and widely violated legal principles. But it comes nowhere close to describing the legal system in practice. Millions of Americans lack any access to justice, let alone equal access. Worse, the increasing centrality of law in American life and its growing complexity has made access to legal assistance critical for all citizens. Yet according to most estimates about four-fifths of the legal needs of the poor, and two- to three-fifths of the needs of middle-income individuals remain unmet. This book reveals the inequities of legal assistance in America, from the lack of access to educational services and health benefits to gross injustices in the criminal defense system. It proposes a specific agenda for change, offering tangible reforms for coordinating comprehensive systems for the delivery of legal services, maximizing individual's opportunities to represent themselves, and making effective legal services more affordable for all Americans who need them.
Book Synopsis The Legal Aid Council in Nigeria by : Adewumi Adeyemi
Download or read book The Legal Aid Council in Nigeria written by Adewumi Adeyemi and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justice is the bedrock of peace and tranquillity in every society. Justice cannot be guaranteed when there is no access to court, fair hearing and fundamental rights due to financial constraint. The people of each country have contracted their power to their government to secure their rights and interests. Therefore it is incumbent on the government to strive towards equality before the law. One of the means to secure this is through availing indigent people free legal aid services. In Nigeria, the Legal Aid Council was established to serve the needy. Aside from the government legal aid service, there are several voluntary legal aid services. Despite the services, the bias of the Nigerian legal system to the detriment of the poor people is not quenched. This work then looks at the background of the legal aid service in Nigeria, challenges and the possible solutions to serve as corrective tools for the lacunae in the present legal aid service in the country.
Download or read book Legal Aid written by and published by Raman Mittal. This book was released on 2012 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at an international conference.
Book Synopsis Access to Justice and Legal Aid by : Asher Flynn
Download or read book Access to Justice and Legal Aid written by Asher Flynn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how access to justice is affected by restrictions to legal aid budgets and increasingly prescriptive service guidelines. As common law jurisdictions, England and Wales and Australia, share similar ideals, policies and practices, but they differ in aspects of their legal and political culture, in the nature of the communities they serve and in their approaches to providing access to justice. These jurisdictions thus provide us with different perspectives on what constitutes justice and how we might seek to overcome the burgeoning crisis in unmet legal need. The book fills an important gap in existing scholarship as the first to bring together new empirical and theoretical knowledge examining different responses to legal aid crises both in the domestic and comparative contexts, across criminal, civil and family law. It achieves this by examining the broader social, political, legal, health and welfare impacts of legal aid cuts and prescriptive service guidelines. Across both jurisdictions, this work suggests that it is the most vulnerable groups who lose out in the way the law now operates in the twenty-first century. This book is essential reading for academics, students, practitioners and policymakers interested in criminal and civil justice, access to justice, the provision of legal assistance and legal aid.
Book Synopsis Legal Aid Council Through the Cases by : Legal Aid Council of Nigeria
Download or read book Legal Aid Council Through the Cases written by Legal Aid Council of Nigeria and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Nigerian Legal System by : Adefi M. Olong
Download or read book The Nigerian Legal System written by Adefi M. Olong and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author is both a practitioner within the Nigerian legal system and is a lecturer in law. From these two perspectives, he provides a full introduction to the Nigerian legal system. Amongst topics covered are branches and institutes of the system, functions, classifications, sources, English law, doctrines of equity, statutes in England and those extended to Nigeria, Nigerian legislation, judicial precedent, hierarchy of Courts, customary law, application of State decisions in Customary and Sharia Law, conflicts between English and Customary Law. Also covered are applicable law between the different provenances, conflicts between Islamic and Customary Law, types of Courts in Nigeria and their jurisdiction, and legal aid. Essential documents are provided: Protocol to the African Charter on Human & People's Rights of Women in Africa; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and African Charter on Human and People's Rights. A valuable explanation is given of words and maxims used in the Nigerian legal system, and an index. Olong Adefi is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria; and lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Kogi State University where he teaches administrative law, commercial law, land law, legal research method, human rights and the Nigerian legal system.
Book Synopsis Enhancing Access to Justice in Nigeria with Judicial Case Management by : Johnson Amadi
Download or read book Enhancing Access to Justice in Nigeria with Judicial Case Management written by Johnson Amadi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental purpose of a civil justice system is to provide its citizens facing legal disputes - the mechanisms - through which they can ably secure justice efficiently. Obstacles to access to justice in Nigerian civil justice system are challenging. These obstacles include: delays, cost of litigation, complex legal rules and procedure, lack of awareness and legal knowledge. The average duration of a trial, from the time of issue of summons to the point in time when a final judgment is delivered by the court is eight years, in many instances, beyond ten years. Almost all proceedings are subject to delays at all stages, primarily due to procedural rules exploited by parties in court proceedings. Delays escalate cost of litigation: time, cost of attorney's fees and other related expenses. The cost of accessing the justice system is prohibitive to most. Litigation is made less useful by the long delays and there is usually the possibility of the litigation cost exceeding the value of the subject matter of the legal action. The complex rules of procedures require citizens to seek the services of experts (attorneys) in almost all cases. It is the obligation of a civil justice system to guarantee that justice is fair and efficient as it can be for those who arrive there on their own. Citizens who choose to represent themselves should be enabled to effectively represent themselves. The aforementioned factors are impeding access to justice and there is a growing lack of public confidence in the justice system. Some common law countries with similar problems are exploring reforms measures in their respective legal systems with a shift away from the adversarial culture to judicial case management. This essay examines the problems inherent in Nigeria's civil justice system and explores novel approaches to remedy these shortcomings by analyzing civil justice reforms in the U.S., the United Kingdom and Canada. A comparative perspective can be helpful in the quest for a theory of the public good and right political order. This paper affirms that judicial case management if effectively administered provides a valuable tool in a nation's quest for a more efficient civil justice system that provides low cost and speedy trial - enhancing access to justice. This essay also advocates for the institutionalization of a case management regime in Nigeria's civil justice system.
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Book Synopsis Access to Justice by : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights
Download or read book Access to Justice written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On 23 February 2016, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights (the Committee) decided to undertake a study on access to justice by proceeding in several phases, the first consisting of reviewing the Court Challenges Program. The Committee tabled its report on the Court Challenges Program in September 2016. The second phase of the study on access to justice entailed a review of legal aid. From December 2016 to May 2017, the Committee held seven meetings at which it heard testimony from representatives of the Department of Justice, experts and organizations involved in the delivery of legal aid services. This report starts by explaining the federal role in legal aid and its role in funding provincial and territorial legal aid plans. It then outlines a number of measures that could increase access to legal assistance to maximize the impact of existing funding, and finishes by examining ways to improve data and research on legal aid"--Introd., p. 1-2.
Book Synopsis Law, Poverty, and Legal Aid by : S. Muralidhar
Download or read book Law, Poverty, and Legal Aid written by S. Muralidhar and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Indian context.
Download or read book Access to Justice written by Asher Flynn and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2013, restrictions on the provision of legal aid and changes to social, legal and welfare services have significantly increased demand for legal services in Australia, while simultaneously increasing the extent of unmet legal need. In this climate of austerity, a robust debate over the allocation of resources is taking place with questions regarding the priorities that should be accorded to government-funded serious criminal cases, to criminal representation in the lower courts, and to serious civil and family law matters. This has raised some important questions for practitioners, recipients of legal aid, courts, academics and providers of legal aid funding and services: namely, who deserves legal aid? Should legal aid seek to provide more people with fewer services or should it spend more money assisting fewer vulnerable clients? Who are the core clients of legal aid services? And in the context of finite funding and expanding demands, on what criteria are priorities decided, and who decides those criteria?
Book Synopsis Access to Justice as a Human Right by : Francesco Francioni
Download or read book Access to Justice as a Human Right written by Francesco Francioni and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In international law, as in any other legal system, respect and protection of human rights can be guaranteed only by the availability of effective judicial remedies. When a right is violated or damage is caused, access to justice is of fundamental importance for the injured individual and it is an essential component of the rule of law. Yet, access to justice as a human right remains problematic in international law. First, because individual access to international justice remains exceptional and based on specific treaty arrangements, rather than on general principles of international law; second, because even when such right is guaranteed as a matter of treaty obligation, other norms or doctrines of international law may effectively impede its exercise, as in the case of sovereign immunity or non reviewability of UN Security Council measures directly affecting individuals. Further, even access to domestic legal remedies is suffering because of the constraints put by security threats, such as terrorism, on the full protection of freedom and human rights. This collection of essays offers seven distinct perspectives on the present status of access to justice: its development in customary international law, the stress put on it in times of emergency, its problematic exercise in the case of violations of the law of war, its application to torture victims, its development in the case law of the UN Human Rights Committee and of the European Court of Human Rights, its application to the emerging field of environmental justice, and finally access to justice as part of fundamental rights in European law.
Book Synopsis To Establish Justice for All by : Earl Johnson
Download or read book To Establish Justice for All written by Earl Johnson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American statesman Sargent Shriver called the Legal Services Program the "most important" of all the War on Poverty programs he started; American Bar Association president Edward Kuhn said its creation was the most important development in the history of the legal profession. Earl Johnson Jr., a former director of the War on Poverty's Legal Services Program, provides a vivid account of the entire history of civil legal aid from its inception in 1876 to the current day. The first to capture the full story of the dramatic, ongoing struggle to bring equal justice to those unable to afford a lawyer, this monumental three-volume work covers the personalities and events leading to a national legal aid movement - and decades later, the federal government's entry into the field, and its creation of a unique institution, an independent Legal Services Corporation, to run the program. The narrative also covers the landmark court victories the attorneys won and the political controversies those cases generated, along with the heated congressional battles over the shape and survival of the Legal Services Corporation. In the final chapters, the author assesses the current state of civil legal aid and its future prospects in the United States."--Pub. desc.
Book Synopsis Justice and the Poor by : Reginald Heber Smith
Download or read book Justice and the Poor written by Reginald Heber Smith and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manuscript by Reginald Heber Smith. Includes a study of the present denial of justice to the poor, and of the agencies making more equal their position before the law, with particular reference to legal aid work in the United States.
