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.