EXPLANATION OF WHAT STREET LAW IS ABOUT



INTRODUCTION
It is pertinent to say that in our society today that most of the people living in our society especially in the rural environment   are ignorance of law. It will not be surprise that so many of them want to know what law is all about and to appreciate it with its regulative apparatus .  Therefore, it is on the verge of the above little  introduction that  Street Law”  came about.

STREET LAW LESSON PLANS
The following lesson plans can be drown after reading the below extract.  That the reader should be able to come up with a reasonable understanding of street law. 
That the reader should be able  to know the vocal teaching of street law (regulatory and 
educating )
And finally, that the  reader  should also be able to   explain at least in  brief  what  street law  is about

EXPLANATION OF WHAT STREET LAW IS ABOUT
Street law can be explained as a system of law which emanated to solve the problems of the less  privileged  in  creating the awareness of law in their minds. It is procedural and practical in nature in the sense that it guides the law students or young lawyers to imbibe the counseling   skill of their  clients.
Street law aims at rendering free legal services to the indigent people around the environs.   Human rights as one of the  core  areas in  which  street law  borders much and other areas  in which some people   in the society needed to be educated on  are:
Family law and domestic violence, human rights, environmental and tenancy  matters.  Section  33 (1)  of  1999 constitution  is  of the view that  every person has a right  to life, and no one should  be deprived  without the conclusive    decision of the superior court  of  Record.  Incidences had appeared severally in a situation where the local chiefs may have constituted  on illegal security   men in their pursuit of law in  which they are ignorance of . This so constituted boys instead of arresting the suspects and handing them over to the  police they  elect taking the  law into their  own hands thereby killing the suspects. All these occurrences are what the street law or lawyering seeks to expose and to advice the  best way of handling  any legal  issues arising  therefrom.  Under the Child’s Right Act, this Act  protects the right   of a child for any undue   treatment . For instance,  section  21 of  the Act maintains that no person under the age  of  eighteen years  is capable of contracting  a valid marriage  and  accordingly,  a marriage so  contracted is null and void  and  of no effect whatsoever.  But the villagers wouldn’t know all these except if they were thought 
 AREAS OF STREET LAW ACTIVITIES
A  careful looking into the above  explanation  will show that the areas of street law activities  are as follows:  activities on human rights  in  which case it is the duty of those who engage in  street lawyering to educate the masses especially the  less privileged about their rights in the  society. Examples, the right to maintain  an action  against a trespassers, right  to  institute  an action against private  or even public nuisance  in or   environment. 
Right of maintaining an action against the government for   taken ones land without compensation.
In  conclusion, it is  vital to say hear that  the  activities of street law is  regulatory  and  educative  in nature.
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