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A civil society group, Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HILL), has called for partnerships to ensure affordable and accessible justice systems for everyone.
Mr Sam Muller, the Chief Executive Officer of the group made this comment on Thursday during the presentation of the 2023 report of the justice needs and satisfaction in Nigeria.
Muller said that about one billion people globally have a new justice problem, but shockingly, over 70 per cent of those people do not find satisfactory resolution.
“30 per cent of them don’t even feel sufficiently, empowered to take action.
“This has a significant impact on their lives and on the society from violence to seriously damaged relationships and business conflicts”.
He said the problems persist because the same models used to deliver justice in the past centuries are still being used today.
“This makes the process of getting justice often slow, difficult and costly.
“With accurate data and technology, we can co-create high quality justice based on what we need now.
“We should all work towards user-friendly justice. Justice that is affordable, accessible, easy to understand, justice that is people centred and works,” he said.
He, however, observed that change has started in the last five years with a movement towards people-centered justice.
He said a task force consisting of leaders from different regions of the world made a thorough analysis of the situation and found that the cost of justice on the economy and development can be measured.
“Two-third of people on planet earth do not have adequate access to justice, and somehow it is not getting better and we keep doing the same thing to improve,” he said.
Representative of HILL in Nigeria, in her presentation added that the organisation has a justice acceleration programme, scaling programme and innovation labs in Imo, Kaduna and Ogun states.
She added that findings from the research done in the labs in Imo, Kaduna and Ogun indicated that Nigeria has attained the level of outcomes, solutions and labs in Imo, Kaduna .
Mr Felix Okojie, who represented the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Lateef Fagbemi, expressed satisfaction with the result of the research from the three states and reiterated the ministry’s commitment to partnering with HiiL to replicate the findings of the research nationwide.
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