Judicial reforms will improve access to justice – AGF

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, AGF, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, has clarified that the on-going reforms of the country’s judiciary is aimed astatine making justness accessible to mediocre and indigent Nigerians successful enactment with the 1999 Constitution.

He assured that erstwhile afloat completed, the
reforms volition marque the ineligible strategy much efficient, transparent, accountable and fundamentally people-centered.

Fagbemi spoke connected Wednesday successful Abuja portion inaugurating the Justice Sulyman Durosinlorun Kawu-led Governing Board of the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria.

To marque the reforms much meaningful, the AGF charged the Board to travel up with strategical steps that volition trim detention installation congestion, wide tribunal dockets and safeguard cardinal quality rights astatine aboriginal interaction points.

The curate explained that the inauguration of the Board was captious to the attainment of the contiguous administration’s precedence areas, arsenic it is 1 of the measures to attain the far-reaching ineligible and

“From strengthening national rights to expediting trials, our corporate resoluteness is to guarantee that the Legal Aid Council aligns straight with the priorities, deepening access...