Covid-19 and the Challenges of Access to Justice in Nigeria
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2021
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RUN Law Journal
Abstract
There have been several complaints about the justice system's operations in
Nigeria. However, the outbreak of Covid -19 in 2019 exacerbated the
challenges of Access to Justice around the World and especially in Nigeria.
Globally, states took several emergency measures to ensure that the impact
of Covid-19 on their judicial system is alleviated. In Nigeria, the effects of
Covid-19 adversely affected the justice system leading to diminished access
to justice by both the litigants and lawyers due to the measures put in place
to combat Covid 19 to reduce its spread, one of which was the lockdown for
some months in the year 2020. The aim of this paper is therefore to
investigate the challenges of Covid 19 on Access to Justice in Nigeria. In
achieving the research objective(s), the doctrinal research methodology will
be adopted, coupled with an analysis of the challenges of Covid 19 on the
access to justice in Nigeria vis a vis other clime and the measures put in
place to ensure Access to Justice despite the outbreak of Covid 19. This
paper discovers that the judicial system in Nigeria is still unprepared to
assuring Access to Justice and need to take a hint from other climes so as not
to repeat the difficulty experienced in accessing justice
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Access to Justice, Challenges, Court, Covid-19, Justice system, Lockdown