The challenges of integrating domestic violence in to court connected ‘Adr’ processes in Nigeria
Alternative dispute resolution has always been a panacea for access to justice and access to justice is any process or procedure that will make justice accessible, available and affordable. The elitist and technical litigation system has failed to respond with promptitude the societal quest for j...
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Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws (AIKOL), International Islamic University Malaysia
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| author | Umar, Mohammed Amin Abdul Wahab, Mohd. Iqbal Mohd Zin, Najibah Wan Muhammad, Ramizah |
| author_facet | Umar, Mohammed Amin Abdul Wahab, Mohd. Iqbal Mohd Zin, Najibah Wan Muhammad, Ramizah |
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| description | Alternative dispute resolution has always been a panacea for access to justice and
access to justice is any process or procedure that will make justice accessible, available
and affordable. The elitist and technical litigation system has failed to respond with
promptitude the societal quest for justice in the dawn of painful injustice. These realities
exceedingly justified the establishment of the court connected ‘ADR’ processes in Nigeria.
There is a universal consensus that one of the pervasive and endemic threat to global
peace and development is domestic violence and has also bedevilled Nigeria and about
to be declare a national malaise. This study seek to highlight the extent and severity of
domestic violence and the need to be included in to purview of court connected ‘ADR’
system having satisfy the threshold severity of violence emerging from family/marital
relationship. This study will also distinguish family/marital disputes from domestic
violence and critique the jurisdiction of family court established without regard to the
intricate complexities of family disputes and domestic violence. This study found that
there is need to reposition the multi-door court house in both conceptual and structural
paradigm with a view of integrating heterogeneous Nigeria and plural legal system. |
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| spelling | iium-586382024-12-19T07:57:41Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/58638/ The challenges of integrating domestic violence in to court connected ‘Adr’ processes in Nigeria Umar, Mohammed Amin Abdul Wahab, Mohd. Iqbal Mohd Zin, Najibah Wan Muhammad, Ramizah K Law (General) Alternative dispute resolution has always been a panacea for access to justice and access to justice is any process or procedure that will make justice accessible, available and affordable. The elitist and technical litigation system has failed to respond with promptitude the societal quest for justice in the dawn of painful injustice. These realities exceedingly justified the establishment of the court connected ‘ADR’ processes in Nigeria. There is a universal consensus that one of the pervasive and endemic threat to global peace and development is domestic violence and has also bedevilled Nigeria and about to be declare a national malaise. This study seek to highlight the extent and severity of domestic violence and the need to be included in to purview of court connected ‘ADR’ system having satisfy the threshold severity of violence emerging from family/marital relationship. This study will also distinguish family/marital disputes from domestic violence and critique the jurisdiction of family court established without regard to the intricate complexities of family disputes and domestic violence. This study found that there is need to reposition the multi-door court house in both conceptual and structural paradigm with a view of integrating heterogeneous Nigeria and plural legal system. Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws (AIKOL), International Islamic University Malaysia 2017 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/58638/1/58638.pdf Umar, Mohammed Amin and Abdul Wahab, Mohd. Iqbal and Mohd Zin, Najibah and Wan Muhammad, Ramizah (2017) The challenges of integrating domestic violence in to court connected ‘Adr’ processes in Nigeria. In: International Conference on Dispute Resolution 2017 - Modern Trends in Effective Dispute Resolution, 9th-10th August 2017, Kuala Lumpur. https://icdr2017.org/ |
| spellingShingle | K Law (General) Umar, Mohammed Amin Abdul Wahab, Mohd. Iqbal Mohd Zin, Najibah Wan Muhammad, Ramizah The challenges of integrating domestic violence in to court connected ‘Adr’ processes in Nigeria |
| title | The challenges of integrating domestic violence in to court connected ‘Adr’ processes in Nigeria |
| title_full | The challenges of integrating domestic violence in to court connected ‘Adr’ processes in Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | The challenges of integrating domestic violence in to court connected ‘Adr’ processes in Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | The challenges of integrating domestic violence in to court connected ‘Adr’ processes in Nigeria |
| title_short | The challenges of integrating domestic violence in to court connected ‘Adr’ processes in Nigeria |
| title_sort | challenges of integrating domestic violence in to court connected ‘adr’ processes in nigeria |
| topic | K Law (General) |
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