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Title: | Poverty in the human rights jurisprudence of the Nigerian Appellate Courts (1999-2011) |
Authors: | Okafor, Obiora Chinedu Ugochukwu, Basil |
Year: | 2016 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Law (ISSN 1464-3731) |
Volume: | 60 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 289-311 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | courts of appeal human rights jurisprudence poverty |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855316000048 |
Abstract: | The major objective of this article is to examine the extent to which the human rights jurisprudence of the Nigerian appellate courts has been sensitive and / or receptive to the socio-economic and political claims of Nigeria's large population of the poor and marginalized. In particular, the article considers: the extent to which Nigerian human rights jurisprudence has either facilitated or hindered the efforts of the poor to ameliorate their own poverty; the kinds of conceptual apparatuses and analyses utilized by the Nigerian courts in examining the issues brought before it that concerned the specific conditions of the poor; and the key biases that are embedded in and shape Nigeria's jurisprudential orientation. The line of cases analysed in the article indicate that the Nigerian appellate courts, as elsewhere, possess great capacity, for good or ill, to impact public policy in the field of poverty reduction. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |