For Kent, Clinical Legal Education has enjoyed stardom as a result but not only of the long years of operation of the clinic. This years of operation helped students become conscious of their society as well as afford them the opportunity to learn the practical legal skills which the student would have spent years learning after graduation.
Kent Law Clinic provides advice in the following areas in particular - employment, housing, benefits, contract, consumer, negligence, nuisance, family, immigration, asylum, planning and public law matters generally. Visit our Advice Sessions page for details of Clinic advice sessions in the local community. Help and advice is also available from the Clinic's specialist teams.Working in the clinic involves hard work but it is really rewarding, especially when you hear about your fellow students returning from court winning cases on their own and seeing the amount of compensation they have won for their client… another thank-you card to go up alongside the hundreds we have received.
The leading University in Clinical Legal Education in Nigeria, Univeristy of Abuja has had her success in providing legal aid to those who cannot afford to hire a lawyer. Over the years Prison Pretrial detainee who found themselves behind the wall of KUJE prison due to technicalities, that could have been avoided, have been helped to regain their freedom, matters on Human Right has been successfully taken up and the education of Gwagwalada community on the use of the Freedom of Information Act has been successfully embarked on by the clinic.
University of Abuja Law Clinic was established in 2008, and although a lot has been achieved to say that University Law Clinic is where it should be would be to state that the ideology the clinic is built on is a stagnant thought. There is much to be done and much to achieved which is why there could not have been a better time to enter to partnership in the training of a social conscious lawyers than the time we are in. The time where our prisons are congested, the abuse of human right is recurring and the need for the public to ask questions using the Freedom of Information Act is of great importance.
Today marks an historical event in the history of the two Universities has a partnership was reached between the two great institution of learning. On the visit of Dr Gbenga Oduntan, a Public and Private International Law (International Courts and Tribunals; Arbitration; international commercial law, Land/Maritime boundary and territorial Disputes, Air and Space Law, and Anticorruption Law lecturer from Kent University along side Charlie Greenwood, the International Officer visited the University of Abuja Law Faculty.
For University of Abuja Law Clinic, it is an opportunity to learn the principles that have helped Kent University Law Clinic scale the height the clinic has scaled over the years and apply this principles to improve the University of Abuja Law Clinic has the drive to maintain her excellence continues.
Absolutely interesting! University of Abuja Law Faculty has been producing unique set of lawyers who have been making impacts all over the world. Am glad to be associated with the Law Clinic
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