guides for managing public interest litigation and sources for legal research
On Section 18 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015, you will find more details regarding instances where a lawful arrest may be made without a warrant of arrest.
Content type: Resource Bank
Data type: Legal citations, Legal references,
Legal Topic: Access to Justice,
The Matrimonial Causes Act (MCA) of 1970 is the main law that governs matrimonial causes in Nigeria. It governs actions incidental to marriage such as legal separation, divorce, annulment, maintenance, custody and others.
Content type: Resource Bank
Data type: Legal references, Legal research sources,
Legal Topic: Women’s rights,
This study may be useful to learn in more detail about the experiences of Nigerians in the hands of the Nigerian police. Findings of the study provide ample evidence of gross violations of human rights.
Content type: Resource Bank
Data type: Legal references,
Legal Topic: Arrest, Detention and bail, Freedom of Assembly, Protecting Civic Spaces,
Premium Times Article expatiating the position of the law on police permit not being a requirement for protest.
Content type: Resource Bank
Data type: Legal references,
Legal Topic: Arrest, Freedom of Assembly, Protecting Civic Spaces,
Objective of this study: To study the origin of the concept of Public Interest Litigation. To study the evolution and development of Public Interest Litigation in India To discuss the instances of successful adjudication of rights of people through the advent of Public Interest Litigations in India To study the cases of misuse of Public […]
Content type: Resource Bank
Data type: Legal references,
Legal Topic: Public interest litigation (general),
The paper proposes that reports of pervasive competition and conflict overland in sub-Saharan Africa belie a current image of negotiable and adaptive customary systems of landholding and land use but, instead, reveal processes of exclusion, deepening social divisions and class formation. Cases of ambiguous and indeterminate outcomes among claimants over land do occur, but the […]
Content type: Resource Bank
Data type: Legal references,
Legal Topic: Land rights,
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