Hi friends,
This, if you like, is a summer edition, coming straight right on the first day of the annual vacation (Lagos State Judiciary). In Onitsha Anambra State, the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NBA meets this week from the 23rd to the 25th July. Top of the agenda of the meeting is to approve the provisional list of candidates for the August 2008 general elections.
On our cover this week, is Okey Owhonda Esq, a leading candidate for the post of General Secretary of the NBA. His interview with us, where he discusses his dreams and plans for the NBA is our cover story.
About a year ago, Lagos state repealed her Coroner’s Law and came out with a new law, which however is, it appears, giving medical practitioners sleepless nights. The doctors are not keeping quiet over the matter. We publish here, a recent press statement of the Nigerian Medical Association on the matter, courtesy of the Saturday Vanguard newspaper of 19th July 2008.
The administration of Criminal Justice Law is another new law in Lagos State. Fortunately it is not controversial despite many interesting innovations it contains. Professor Ayodele Atsenuwa’s paper entitled Administration of Criminal Justice Law, 2007. Reforms relating to non-custodial disposition options in Lagos State discusses one such innovation is herein published. The paper delivered on 3rd June 2008 at the Interactive workshop on the law is entitled.
You will find the views of the learned professor useful. Only a few of your Sweet Regulars to wit, The Learned Squib, Case Law, Readers’ Pavilion make this edition. Don’t forget this is a ‘summer’ edition. So bear with us.
Almost hidden in the edition is a write up which asks and tries to answer a very germane, if rather strange question – Is the NBA dying? What do you think?
Well, until when next the parliament opens, do not take it easy. Do not go to the grave with your songs unsung. Give life your best shots. The Heavens Will Not Fall!
This, if you like, is a summer edition, coming straight right on the first day of the annual vacation (Lagos State Judiciary). In Onitsha Anambra State, the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NBA meets this week from the 23rd to the 25th July. Top of the agenda of the meeting is to approve the provisional list of candidates for the August 2008 general elections.
On our cover this week, is Okey Owhonda Esq, a leading candidate for the post of General Secretary of the NBA. His interview with us, where he discusses his dreams and plans for the NBA is our cover story.
About a year ago, Lagos state repealed her Coroner’s Law and came out with a new law, which however is, it appears, giving medical practitioners sleepless nights. The doctors are not keeping quiet over the matter. We publish here, a recent press statement of the Nigerian Medical Association on the matter, courtesy of the Saturday Vanguard newspaper of 19th July 2008.
The administration of Criminal Justice Law is another new law in Lagos State. Fortunately it is not controversial despite many interesting innovations it contains. Professor Ayodele Atsenuwa’s paper entitled Administration of Criminal Justice Law, 2007. Reforms relating to non-custodial disposition options in Lagos State discusses one such innovation is herein published. The paper delivered on 3rd June 2008 at the Interactive workshop on the law is entitled.
You will find the views of the learned professor useful. Only a few of your Sweet Regulars to wit, The Learned Squib, Case Law, Readers’ Pavilion make this edition. Don’t forget this is a ‘summer’ edition. So bear with us.
Almost hidden in the edition is a write up which asks and tries to answer a very germane, if rather strange question – Is the NBA dying? What do you think?
Well, until when next the parliament opens, do not take it easy. Do not go to the grave with your songs unsung. Give life your best shots. The Heavens Will Not Fall!
Adesina Ogunlana
Editor-in-Chief
