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The Nigerian Legal System By Obilade Olusegun Akintunde. Revised 2018. Paperback
This book is a comprehensive text that deals with all aspects of the Nigerian Legal System, which consists of the laws, courts, personnel of the law, and the administration of justice process, as it exists in Nigeria.
A host of cases both Nigerian and foreign are reported in illustration. It is a handbook, especially prepared and intended to furnish and equip every person who is interested in Nigerian Law with a solid knowledge of the Nigerian Legal system, its structure, personnel and how it works.
This book is an invaluable companion for law students, legal practitioners and general readers who want a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the Nigerian Legal System, quickly and thoroughly.
About the Author:
Ese Malemi, a legal practitioner, is a Barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos Nigeria. He is an amiable gentleman and a member of the Nigerian Bar Association. He lives and practices Law in Lagos. His book on law include: Mass Media Law, Administrative Law, The Nigerian Constitutional Law, Law of Tort and the Nigerian Legal MethodImportant developments in the law and the expansion of the egal profession in Nigeria has brought in recent years major changes to the structure of the Courts and to the administration of justice. The Nigerian Legal System has therefore been specially written to provide law students, and those in the legal profession, with a new insight into the structure and organisation of the law as it operates today within Nigeria.
An experienced teacher of law at the University of Lagos, the author has focused on those aspects of the law that are of the essence in providing students with a true explanation and understanding of how the law works. The book includes chapters on Sources of Law, the Structure of the Courts and “the Legal Profession, together with a concise guide to both criminal and civil procedure.
This book will prove to be required reading for every law student as well as an invaluable aid and source of information to those practising or teaching law in Nigeria.
AKINTUNDE OLUSEGUN OBILADELL.B. (Hons.) (Lagos), LLM. (Harvard), Legal Practitioner, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Lagos.
