Currently, the courts are shut while prisons have refused to bring inmates out of the prison or allowed new admission into the prison facilities for fear of community spread of the virus within the prison walls. While the concern of the community transmission of the disease is genuine as there are several reported outbreaks of the virus on a large scale in major prisons across the world
More →The outbreak of COVID 19 in Wuhan, China sometime in December 2019, the eventual declaration of the virus as a pandemic in March 2020 by the World Health Organisation, and the discovery of first case in Lagos State led to unprecedented lockdown measures initially in 3 states and subsequently majority of the States of the …
More →Introduction The COVID 19 pandemic has put all state institutions under a severe strain and society is begging for a response and adaptation for the system to survive. Beyond the initial seemingly kneejerk general administrative directives by the respective heads of court to their constituency[1], the Nigerian judiciary now seems poised to tackle the challenges …
More →Introduction The COVID 19 pandemic has raised great challenges in the Nigerian judiciary system vis a vis the containment measures being issued and the need for an efficient and prompt administration of justice/resolution of disputes. This article intends to provide an update on the state of the judiciary in a COVID-19 environment and contribute in …
More →Our Senior Associate, Iheanacho Dike Udensi, at the Lawyers Associated Worldwide(LAW) 2019 Annual General Meeting held recently in Munich. See Images
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