FASHOLA FLAGS OFF 2013/14 NEW LEGAL YEAR; URGES LAW OFFICERS TO ASSIST LESS PRIVILEGED IN SOCIETY TO GET JUSTICE
Posted on: 2013-09-24 00:00:00
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Monday attended the
special service for the opening of the 2013/2014 New Legal Year in
Lagos State, charging law officers to keep afloat the structures that
enable them assist the less privileged in the society.
The Governor who spoke at the Lagos Central Mosque on Nnamdi Azikiwe
Street, through his Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr
Ade Ipaiye said the structures which include the Office of the Public
Defender and the Public Interest Law Partnership office have enabled
lawyers give free services to members of the public.
He stated that the Public Interest Law Partnership office located in
the State Ministry of Justice has aided 100 litigants who ordinarily
would not have had access to justice because they lack the funds to hire
lawyers to defend them.
He tasked legal practitioners who are yet to enlist on the programme to
do so without any further delay and ensure that on a regular basis they
take on cases to assist less privilege brothers and sisters by giving
out some of their time and experience.
The Governor stressed that there is nothing comparable to when a lawyer
decides to give assistance to a man who would ordinarily have been
incarcerated unjustly for an offence which he might not have committed.
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