The NAU Law Review

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...

Ekhorutomwen Gabriel Ekhator  Abstract Noise pollution is one of the fastest growing environmental concerns in the world. Noise is not healthy for human beings. Noise from religious activities in Nigeria has become a peculiar and predominant menace suffered quietly people. Nigeria is a country with one of the largest number of churches and relatively high number of mosques in the world and a fertile soil for the growth of independent churches....

P.E Idahosa esq. AbstractThe age-long principle of “separation of powers” allocates the governmental functions of law-making, enforcement/execution and interpretation respectively to the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary as organs of the state. This age-long doctrine as found in very many legal systems equally operates in Nigeria virtue of sections 4, 5 and 6 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended)....

Chike B. Okosa AbstractRecent developments in legal practice have raised the question of when and how counsel may assert a lien against his client for due but unpaid fees. Further questions of how any such lien may be protected, enforced and discharged are also raised. In answer, we analysed the right of a solicitor to be remunerated for professional services rendered to a client. Using that right as a predicate, we established that where a client...

Nnawulezi Uche and Adeuti, Bosede AbstractThe objective of this paper is to examine the rising pace of technological development in warfare and to determine its humanitarian consequences in Nigeria. This paper argues that adopting a contemporary technological development of warfare in Nigeria is not only a programmatic goal to be attained in a long term, but rather an immediateobligation on Nigeria to take steps in addressing the humanitarian consequences...

Bright Eseosa Enorenseeghe (corresponding author) & Osazee David Egbenusi AbstractThe 1990s will be remembered as the era of democratization in Africa. It is during those years that Africa began to shed what was then pervasive one party and/or ‘big man’ rule. Over the years, the euphoria of 1990s has waned and is now giving way to considerable scepticism. Democracy in much of Africa is constrained from delivering on its development potential...