Friday, March 20, 2015

HOW TO BECOME A LEGAL PRACTITIONER/SENIOR ADVOCATE OF NIGERIA (SAN) UNDER THE NIGERIAN LEGAL SYSTEM.


The entity known as Nigeria today got its independence in 1960. Before its independence, it was amalgamated in 1914 bringing the Northern, Eastern and Southern protectorates under a central control by then Lord Lugard. Before the coming of colonialism to Nigeria, the peoples of Nigeria had their different practices in the application of law and justice to the various followers of different

LAW WITHOUT JUSTICE IS A MEANINGLESS CONCEPT

The central problem in jurisprudence is whether law should be according to justice or justice according to law. Lawyers are of the view that justice ought to be according to law as this would make the law certain and predictable. This view is in consonance with the view of the positivist school of thought about law. For instance, professor Hart, a core positivist is of the opinion that law is law whether good or bad so far as it has been validly enacted. He said that it is erroneous to declare a

THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN RIGHT IN NIGERIA

Today, we will be exploring on the evolution of human Right and we will do this by critically looking at the different phases these rights have gone in cause of its development and recognition in the most populous black nation in the world known as Nigeria, the purpose of which is to expand and broaden our minds on how human right have fared. As earlier stated, this