Senate Reintroduces Sexual Harassment in Tertiary Educational Institutions Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal Bill, 2019
2020 has been an intense year for many people. From the pandemic to loss of jobs, explosions at markets, to the re-occurring cases of rape and police brutality on the news. However, this year has seen women demanding for a society that protects them and this has not been met with an encouraging response from
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COVID – 19 and the Need for Judicial Re-Think
Crisis has a way of bringing to light what has been hiding beneath the surface. The ongoing COVID – 19 pandemic, the worst global crisis in a century, has exposed the pre-existing fragilities in Nigeria and lay bare the age-long failure and inability to read the room. The ravages of the pandemic have been all-encompassing,
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Lawyard Spotlight: Ify Okoli-Watson (Assistant General Counsel, Thomson Reuters)
Ify Okoli-Watson commercial lawyer with vast experience across employment law, commercial law, operations, risk management, strategy and strategy execution and compliance. She is presently the Assistant General Counsel at Thomson Reuters, the world’s largest multimedia news provider where she oversees compliance and employment matters. Kindly tell us a bit about your personal journey I was
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Non-Compete Clauses in Contracts of Employment: Contractually Beneficial or a Challenge to Public Policy?
The regulation of the relationship between an employer and an employee derives from statute and the contract of employment. The express or implied terms of a contract of employment determine its duration. It is an ineluctable reality that employees would always leave their employers in the search for a greener pasture- either to set up
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An Open Letter to Mr. Olumide Akpata, the President-Elect of the Nigerian Bar Association
Dear Mr. President (Elect),Now that the elections are over: Can the Nigerian Bar Association now take its members’ data protection seriously? I sincerely congratulate you on your unprecedented and epoch-making election as the 30th President of our great association. Interesting times are indeed ahead of us all. When we both shared a stage at the
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Legitimacy, Illegitimacy & Legitimation: An Obstruction or Promotion of S.42 (2) of the 1999 Constitution?
Introduction According to the Supreme Court case of Lalli v Lalli, an illegitimate child is termed “a bastard child”, “a child born out of wedlock” or “a non-marital child. Black Law’s dictionary defined a bastard as a child who was born out of wedlock and is otherwise known as an illegitimate child who is a
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The Resolution of Tax Dispute: A Call for the Adoption of a More Efficient System in Arbitration
Introduction The discussion on alternative dispute resolution mechanisms has recently picked up pace in the tax world. In 2016, The Organization for Economic Co-operation Development (OECD) released recommendations to effectively tackle international tax disputes. The OECD proposed to make arbitration binding and mandatory under the Mutual Agreement Procedure for the resolution of disputes arising from
Read MoreFootball Evolution: Assessing the Creation of Salary Caps by Eribake Ayomide & Al-Ameen Sulyman.
Before the adoption of the Bosman Ruling (which allowed players to move for free after their contracts expired), players did not have the option of changing clubs for “free”. It is also important to consider the Financial Fair Play (FFP) Rule, which was introduced by UEFA to make sure clubs do not overspend (spend more
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Freedom of Expression vs. Online Defamation
One the most fundamental and inalienable rights of man is the right to Freedom of Expression. This right guarantees that one can express oneself in anyway one deems fit. This right is enshrined copiously in S.39 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended. The mode of expressing oneself keeps expanding
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NBA 2020 and the Challenges Ahead
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) 2020 national elections inches closer as the epic battle for various seats in the association continues to gain momentum. A series of allegations and counter-allegations have been trailing the candidacy of some aspirants. This trend is unsurprising because it has become the part and parcel of every electoral process in
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