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.