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Child participation in custody proceedings in customary courts in Nigeria
Mini Dissertation (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa))--University of Pretoria, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/99080 Child participation in custody proceedings in customary courts in Nigeria Fokala, Elvis tosinadegun99@gmail.com Meroka, Agnes Kemuma Adegun, Oluwatosin Senami UCTD Customary courts Child participation Custody proceedings Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) SDG-10: Reduced inequalities Law theses SDG-10 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Law theses SDG-16 Mini Dissertation (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa))--University of Pretoria, 2024. Child participation is one of the fundamental principles of child's rights under the United Nations Convention on the Right of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child to which Nigeria is a State party. As a fundamental principle, child participation is to be observed in decision-making processes that affect the child of which judicial custody proceedings is one. This research explores Nigeria's legislative framework on child participation and finds that the Child's Rights Act of 2003 and equivalent child's rights legislations at the state level do not have comprehensive provision on child participation. This research explores provisions of the child's rights legislations and customary courts laws applicable in Abuja, Lagos, Ekiti, Oyo and Kaduna States, and finds that the laws are inadequate to aid the application of child participation in custody proceedings in customary courts in Nigeria. Custody decisions of customary court in Kaduna state were analysed and secondary data on custody proceedings in Oyo and Ekiti states were used in supporting the analysis, and this research finds that child participation is not being applied in custody proceedings in customary courts in Nigeria despite that such proceedings are part of decision-making processes that affect children. This research therefore recommends legislative and judicial reforms among others to aid child participation in custody proceedings in Nigeria. N/A Centre for Human Rights LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa) Unrestricted Faculty of Laws 2024-11-14T12:44:33Z 2024-11-14T12:44:33Z 2024-12-10 2024-10-23 Mini Dissertation * D2024 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/99080 10.25403/UPresearchdata.27697437 en © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Customary courts Child participation Custody proceedings Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) SDG-10: Reduced inequalities Law theses SDG-10 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Law theses SDG-16 Child participation in custody proceedings in customary courts in Nigeria |
| title | Child participation in custody proceedings in customary courts in Nigeria |
| title_full | Child participation in custody proceedings in customary courts in Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | Child participation in custody proceedings in customary courts in Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Child participation in custody proceedings in customary courts in Nigeria |
| title_short | Child participation in custody proceedings in customary courts in Nigeria |
| title_sort | child participation in custody proceedings in customary courts in nigeria |
| topic | UCTD Customary courts Child participation Custody proceedings Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) SDG-10: Reduced inequalities Law theses SDG-10 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Law theses SDG-16 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/99080 |