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1. DO JUDGES MAKE LAW ? ( A CURSORY LOOK AT THE RECURRING QUESTION)
» ABSTRACT It is common knowledge that the age long principle of Separation of powers allocates the governmental functions of law making, law implementation and law interpretation to the Legislative, Executive and Judicial arms of government respectively and each arm is to function independently without any unwarranted inter meddling. It is trite that the function of lawmaking for peaceful coexisten...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 94 pages | 886 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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2. CRITICAL APPRAISAL ON OPINION EVIDENCE
» CRITICAL APPRAISAL ON OPINION EVIDENCE ABSTRACT Generally, where a court is faced with the problem of determining a suit before it, such can only be solved after making an enquiry into the relevant facts of the evidence put before it by the parties, drawing inferences from those facts, and listening to arguments of parties to the case or of their counsel. Evidence is there from called as a means...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 54 pages | 817 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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3. CONFESSIONAL STATEMENT UTILITY IN CRIMINAL TRIALS (AN OVERVIEW)
» ABSTRACT The confessional statement of an accused person is of great evidential value in the dispensation of justice. It represents the most important and most frequently encountered exception to the rule against hearsay in criminal cases. This piece of work is propelled toward examining the fundamental conditions of the admissibility in evidence against any person equally of any oral answer given...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 75 pages | 14,538 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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4. A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PRESUMPTIONS IN RELATION TO THE LAW OF EVIDENCE
» ABSTRACT Presumption either of law or of fact, is an independent piece of evidence which may or must be drawn from a given sets of facts until the contrary is proved. In general sense, it has cut a niche for itself as it maybe employed in both Civil and Criminal cases. This study will therefore examine the various incidences where presumptions must or may be made before there can be a conviction...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 95 pages | 13,123 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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5. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTCIE IN NIGERIAN COURTS, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
» ABSTRACT The topic “ Administration of justice in Nigerian courts, problems and prospects” seems to attract to itself the attention and inquisitiveness on the part of the common man or every believer in the Rule of law of what the writer is talking about or what he is going to upon since the mere mention of justice in our society today raises a conjecture and thereafter suffers from univer...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 87 pages | 8,604 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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6. AN EXAMINATION OF LAWS REGULATING ELECTION PETITIONS IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF...
» AN EXAMINATION OF LAWS REGULATING ELECTION PETITIONS IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF NIGERIA ABSTRACT Today, its no doubt that election petition forms an intrinsic nature of our democratic setting as dispute and dissatisfaction are bound to arise from the conduct of election and as such dispute has to be resolved and determined by a competent judicial bodies in order to maintain the interest law and...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 115 pages | 9,294 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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7. OFFENCE OF ADOPTION: LAW AND POLICY IN THE NIGERIA LEGAL SYSTEM
» ABSTRACT The essence of this work is borne out of the need to take critical look and an appraisal of the offence of Adoption under the Nigeria Legal System. In the course of this Study, an analysis shall be made as to it’s Law and Policy in the Nigeria Legal System. Chapter one of this work will give the basic introduction to this work, the background of the study, the object of this work, i.e. ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 77 pages | 14,957 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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8. WILL: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS UNDER COMMON AND ISLAMIC LAW
» ABSTRACT The conceptual divergence in respect of the formation of a valid will under both Islamic and common laws will be examined and discussed. Starting from introduction which will introduce us to the general message of the work. The chapters therein have been divided into five. Chapter one deals with the introduction as mentioned above, and chapter two will talk on pre and post Islamic era of ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 84 pages | 13,625 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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9. AN APPRAISAL OF THE COURT AND CONSTITUTIONALISM IN NIGERIA: A DECADE OF DEMOCRAT...
» ABSTRACT Democracy is undoubtedly the commonest system of government mostly practiced in virtually all the countries of the world because it ensures the observance of people‟s rights and freedom. It is however basically characterized by three independent arms of government namely; the Legislative, Executive and the Judicial arm of government. While the Legislature is responsible for making la...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 90 pages | 8,419 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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10. DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
» ABSTRACTThe decree of dissolution of marriage which is defined as the legal separation o f man and wife effected by the judgement or decree of a court, and either totally dissolving the marriage relation, or suspending its effect so far as it concerns the cohabitation of the parties. Dissolution of marriage seems to be on the increase these days, this is due to the fact that people rushed into ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 109 pages | 14,897 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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11. APPRAISAL OF TRESSPASS AS A TORTIOUS ACTION UNDER THE LAW OF TORT
» ABSTRACT There is no branch of law which transpires the true picture of the society more than the law of tort. The reason being that it is a branch of law that deals with the conduct of the people amongst themselves. Because of the contact people have with themselves in the environment, there are bound to be fiction which will bring about injuries or wrong whether direct or in indirect and for ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 74 pages | 8,296 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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12. COMPETENCE AND COMPELLABILITY: IS CHILD EVIDENCE ADMISSIBLE
» ABSTRACT Determination of lawsuits is highly dependent on these availability of evidence. In law, every person is a competent witness in any judicial proceeding unless otherwise prevented by the law. And every compellable witness is a competent witness as the court will not compel anyone to give evidence, if he is incompetent to do so. However, it is not every competent witness that is compella...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 77 pages | 16,186 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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13. JUDICIAL ATTITUDE TO HOMICIDE IN NIGERIA
» ABSTRACT Criminal Law in Nigeria is so wide that it applies to a wide range of crimes. a crime is and actatute or by the Common Law to be a public wrong and is therefore punishable by the state in Criminal proceeding. The crime of homicide which can be divided into two namely, lawful homicide which is a division of homicide justified or excused by law and they are self defence, suppression of r...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 92 pages | 11,421 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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14. THE RIGHT OF AN ACCUSED PERSON UNDER THE NIGERIAN LEGAL SYSTEM
» ABSTRACT Under the Nigerian criminal justice the constitutional right of an accused person is enshrined in Section 35 and 36 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 such rights include, the right to be informed promptly in the language that he understands, the details and nature of the offence of the accused, the right to be given adequate time to prepare his defence, the right...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 86 pages | 21,285 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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15. RIGHT OF EXPRESSION UNDER THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
» ABSTRACT The entrenchment of Right of Expression as a fundamental human right in Nigeria could be traced to the 1960 Independence Constitution and those that followed it. The Independence Constitution of 1960 and the Republican Constitution of 1963 have provisions for the protection of fundamental human rights. The 1979 and the 1999 constitutions went further by providing a bill of right. This ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 80 pages | 13,159 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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16. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CONFLICT SITUATION AND CHOICE OF LAWS IN THE NIGER...
» ABSTRACT Private International Law is that part of a law of a country which deals with cases having foreign element and usually comes into operation whenever courts are seized with such cases. The term ‘foreign element’ means any system of law prevailing outside the lex fori, that is, the local law of the place where the court is situated. It includes not only the law existing in a state under...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 110 pages | 7,896 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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17. EXAMINING PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN NIGERIA: POTENTIALS AND CHALLENGES
» CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.0.0: INTRODUCTION Public Private Partnership is a contractual arrangement which is formed between public and private sector partners which involve the private sector in the development, financing, ownership, and or operation of a public facility or service. In such a partnership, public and private resources are pooled and responsibilities divided so that the par...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 92 pages | 11,449 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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18. ATTITUDE OF THE JUDICIARY TOWARDS ADMISSIBILITY OF CONFESSIONAL STATEMENT
» ABSTRACT A confession is a species of admission. When in the course of an investigation into a criminal offence, a suspect has made a statement to the police tending to show that he has committed that offence, the statement is known as a confession. Confession is governed by rules which assist the court in the administration of justice.This study takes a look at what confession is, its nature a...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 133 pages | 8,166 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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19. A LEGAL APPRAISAL OF THE ELECTRIC POWER SECTOR REFORMS IN NIGERIA
» ABSTRACT Nigeria’s electric power sector requires substantial reform if the country’s economic development and poverty alleviation programme is to be realized. Currently, the country faces serious energy crisis due to declining electricity generation from domestic power plants which are basically dilapidated, obsolete, and in an appalling state of disrepair, reflecting the poor maintenance cul...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 89 pages | 9,085 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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20. CRITICALLY ANALYSIS OF CORROBORATION UNDER THE NIGERIAN LAW OF EVIDENCE
» ABSTRACT There is no law that says the plaintiff or the prosecution must bring a million witnesses or evidence to court before he can succeed in his case. A court can convict on a single witness. A case is not decided by the numbers of witnesses, single credible convincing evidence is enough to convict in a case but there are some exceptions”. The exceptions refer to by this learned m...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 73 pages | 7,272 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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21. CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF THE RELEVANCY AND ADMISSABILITY OF ELECTRONICALLY GENERATE...
» ABSTRACT In an attempt to address this fundamental issue regarding the admissibility of electronically generated evidence, recourse shall be paid had to the word evidence itself. Evidence is the means by which facts are proved excluding inferences and arguments. There are times in court when we desperately need to rely on evidence in order to prove a very vital point or issue in court. This poi...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 80 pages | 8,110 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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22. DUTY CARE : ITS IMPLICATION TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL IN NIGERIA
» ABSTRACT The Medical field is one of the most referred and reverenced profession in that it deals with the lives of human beings and in the course of their dealings with patients, these patients go through tests, operations, diagnosis to mention but a few. The Medical professionals in the course of discharging their duties are sometimes Negligent as regards adhering strictly to their profession...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 90 pages | 7,744 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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23. EXCESS OF INJUNCTION IN NIGERIA JUDICIAL SYSTEM
» ABSTRACT Injunction serves as an order of equitable nature restraining the person to whom it is directed from performing a specified act or in certain exceptional circumstances cases requiring him to perform a specified act. Injunctions are judicial remedy by which a person is ordered to refrain from doing or to do a particular act or thing. In the former case it is called a restrictive and p...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 88 pages | 10,233 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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24. A CRITICAL APPRAISALOF LEGITIMACY AND LEGITIMATION UNDER NIGERIA FAMILY LAW
» ABSTRACT This long essay is concerned with the concept of legitimacy, which is an important concept, as it determines the status of a child in relation to the society, while a legitimate child is conferred with the rights and duties of a legitimate child, which includes right to maintenance, succession among other rights, an illegitimate child is denied of these right by virtue of the fact of his ...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 93 pages | 9,225 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials
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25. A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SECTION 144 OF THE 1999 CONSTITUTION: MUSA YARDUA AS ...
» ABSTRACT On the 23rd of November, 2009, President Musa Yar’Adua left Nigeria for treatment abroad in an undisclosed country. For the next 80 days, nobody heard from or saw the federal republic of Nigeria. Even the vice president, Goodluck Jonathan, could not give any reasonable report of the president’s whereabouts. The activities of the federal executive council became suddenly shrouded and a...Continue Reading »
Item Type: Project Material | 91 pages | 8,516 engagements | Source: Law Projects & Research Materials