Author(s): PROF OBIARAERI, N. O. | Vol. 23 (2) December, 2025 Abstract Nigeria is a “dualist” state where international laws and treaties do not apply automatically in her domestic jurisdiction. Under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended, section 12, international obligations are not automatically treated as operable domestic law unless ratified and […]

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Author(s): PROF OBIARAERI, N. O. | Vol. 23 (2) December, 2025 Abstract During the period Nigeria was under military rule, it was thought that their undemocratic regime and governance by fiat was responsible for human rights violations and infractions. However, with the return to democratic rule in Nigeria in 1999, the human rights violations situation in Nigeria […]

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Author(s): OBIARAERI, N. O. | Vol. 23 (1) December, 2025 Abstract Against the provision in the Rules of Professional Conduct, 2023 that Counsel is under obligation to represent his client competently, this paper examined the propriety of the principle of law that the Court does not visit the inadvertence of Counsel on his client. Deploying doctrinal research […]

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Author(s): PROF OBIARAERI, N. O. | Vol. 23 (1) December, 2025 Abstract The scheme of nolle prosequi is often abused as it is erroneously misunderstood that it is not subject to discernible limitations. Hence, it is habitually exercised at the pleasure of the donee of the power to the chagrin of the cause of justice or on […]

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