The NAU Law Review

Grace Aduragbemi Ikudaisi, LLB (Hons), BL  Abstract   The Persons with Significant Control Regulations, 2022 (“PSC Regulations”) aims to address concerns about the impervious nature of business ownership, where only the legal and not necessarily, the beneficial owners of an entity’s shares are recorded, or disclosed to the public. The PSC Regulations requires all corporate entities to give detailed, timely and accurate information of their...

Ekhorutomwen Gabriel Ekhator  Abstract   One of the benefits of the internet over other means of communication is that it enables easy access to a wide-reaching audience. Spatial distance and national borders are irrelevant to the formation of electronic contracts. With the internet as a distinctive marketplace in terms of market penetration, any computer, anywhere in the world, connected to the internet can access a website and may...

Ater, Solomon Vendaga  Abstract Environmental challenges have become one of the increasingly complicated global realities affecting us today that require deliberately innovative and radical approaches for their solution. Globally, there is a commitment to reducing the emissions of gasses to net zero 2050. However laudable this pledge is, it may amount to nothing unless conscious efforts are channeled toward solving the issue. In these...

Akinyode P.O, Alade K. O, Aremu O. M, Chukwuma C.B, Odeyemi O. B, and Phillip H. I.   Abstract  Prior to the colonization of Nigeria, customary arbitration had always been the accepted means of dispute resolution. This changed drastically with the establishment of the court system the colonial masters. Today, there are two types of arbitration in Nigeria: customary and modern arbitration – assimilated from British arbitration law, which...

Amb Shuaibu Bashir Mukaddam Abstract This write-up will examine thoroughly the concept of technicality, the problems associated with it and the way forward in trying to solve the problems. It will also examine the concept of demand of justice. This paper will further explain the concept of technicality in a wider context taking a careful consideration of the attitude of the court towards technicality. It was discovered that courts try to avoid...

Amadi Rowland Chinedu AbstractThe court is the creation of law; same also are its processes and procedures. Therefore every event of the court shall be as provided the creating law hence; anything orchestrated the court antithetical with the dictates of the creating law amounts to irregularity. This paper x-rayed the foregoing through the need for courts to abide the doctrine of judicial precedent, maintain, respect and observe the limit...