is a law research web portal which was designed to aid legislators, law enforcement agents, law students, judges and lawyers in the everyday research done by lawyers in the course of their work. The traditionally tedious task of developing a case from the research stage down to delivery using our online research software which has an inbuilt search engine of cases, search engine of the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria. You can search for cases using the Subject matter keyword on different sections and different areas of the law. The software also has a case organizer which is a tool the modern lawyer uses in organizing his cases instead of the traditional file system. The application can be accessed from the different channels and works very fast even on mobile devices as the mobile website was designed using the latest technology in Accelerated Mobile Pages technology developed by Google to accelerate mobile devices on the web.
The product comprises of different channels through which this can be achieved. The currently provided channels are the website (www.findlaw.com.ng), the mobile website (m.findlaw.com.ng), mobile application which is a cross platform compatible application and it means it can work on Apple’s IOS, Google’s Android, Microsoft’s Windows (can be downloaded from the various app stores), short CODE SERVICE, these all integrate together to give our users a terrific user experience carrying out their legal research and preparing for a case.
PRODUCT FEATURES:
Full Search Feature
After logging in users will have access to a full search of the judgments of the Supreme Court from 1960 to 2017. This feature enables users to search judgments of the Supreme Court by subject matter keyword, by case name, to save time and effort put into searching cases for precedence to be used in making arguments to persuade the court in deciding every case in your favor. You can also search for eBooks on different areas of law and read for free. You can search EBooks and all the contents in the portal using a keyword search as it is seen on Google.
Ebooks
Buy law books
Booking Platform
Lawyers can book air tickets, hotel rooms and bus tickets through the portal. Our secure booking platform makes it possible for lawyers who use FindLaw Nigeria to book for various services related to their job.
Constitution of the Federal Republic
The constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria
Court of Appeal Rules
Rules of the court of appeal
High court
Judgements of the high courts
Laws of the Federation of Nigeria
State Laws
Laws as passed by the various states house of assemblies
Legal Education
This area contains basic instructional modules on different areas of law from different authorities from different parts of the world and Nigeria.
Supreme Court
Cases will be reported from the Supreme Court as they are being decided. Steaming hot cases are constantly being reported from this platform.
Law Reporting
All judgments will be reported fresh and hot from the Supreme Court and all other relevant courts in Nigeria.
Legal Research
This can be carried out through any of the systems –
- The web portal,
- Mobile app,
- Mobile website,
- Short Code Service.
Search services will be made available with updated cases and information.
Learn Law
The platform makes it possible to learn law for Nigerian students of law from the undergraduate studies to post graduate studies.
- Using the short code service, we will educate Nigerians on day to day applications of law and will by so doing bring about a better sense of human rights in the polity which we believe will bring about a greater respect for same.
- A better level of awareness which will help our nascent democracy.
THE TEAM
Board of Advisors
- Ernest I Ikeh – Chartered Accountant
- Prof. Maxwell Gidado – SAN/Professor of Law
- Prof. Amupitan – SAN/Dean Faculty of Law UNIJOS
- Sola Ojewusi – Executive Director Marketing
- (Business consultant) – Prof. Sam Tende
- (Marketing consultant) – Up North Marketing
- Bar. J.W Dong
- Bar. Ibrahim Kaigama
- Bar Greg Lar
- Bar. Edward Igbegbu
Software Development Team
- Austin Williams
- Okoi Boniface
Data Capture team
- Rose Ngwa
- Anthony Unamba
- Lydia Nathan
Partners:
- Technical partners – Okoi studios,
- Financial partners – Diamond Bank, GTB,
- Prayer partners – Synagogue COAN, Catholic church
- Legal partners – APRJ, Legal Research Initiative,
- Govt. partners – NITDA, NILS, MIN of Justice, MIN of Science and technology