By Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee, Legal Informaticist, Port Harcourt Bar, 18 July 2018
The Nigerian Lawyers Directory, a lawyer’s initiative, stands with Mrs Ini Irene Pepple for the post of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) National Assistant Financial Secretary in the forthcoming NBA Elections 2018.
Nigerian Lawyers Directory is, among other things, particularly impressed with Irene’s correct emphasis on revolutionizing the accounting and payment system of the NBA with the application of modern technology.
It is a shame, and a very big shame, for the Nigerian Bar Association to require thousands and thousands of Nigerian lawyers to go to banks physically every year just to pay their annual practising fees and dues! What a primitive system in the age of online payments which SHOULD be done from the comfort of one’s home, office, even during a journey, anytime and anywhere in the world!
The NBA has come of age, and should not continue to ridicule itself among the world’s bar associations and professional legal institutions.
The application of technology to law and legal processes began since 1949 with Lee Loevinger’s concept of jurimetrics. It is not a new development, although 21st Century technology has revolutionized it in an unprecedented way.
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In this 21st Century, it is already embarrassing for a law firm or a legal practitioner to not have a website. A website is now an essential aspect of corporate image and professional practice. But Nigerian lawyers are far, far behind the modern world in the application of information and communications technology (ICT) to legal practice.
We have to change now to embrace the application of modern technology to every aspect of the legal profession and the Nigerian legal system, including legal practice, legal research, legal education, administration of justice, and the administration of the Nigerian Bar Association. Yes, we should and we can.
Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee
Legal Informaticist
Port Harcourt Bar
Nigerian Lawyers Directory
18 July 2018
His Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series consists of 22 (twenty-two) modern academic article-style independent but interconnected chapters of the following four books:
• Developments in Human Rights Law and the Proposed Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information: The New Human Rights-Advocacy Approach and the Ten Criteria for the Formal Recognition of New Human Rights (Volume 1) — ISBN 9789083108520 (eBook) and 9789083108506 (paperback);
• The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access (Volume 2) — ISBN 9789083108568 (eBook) and 9789083108544 (paperback);
• Innovative Technological Mechanisms for Adequate Web-Based Access to National and Global Public Legal Information (Volume 3) — ISBN 9789083108513 (eBook) and 9789083108582 (paperback); and
• A Model Empirical Study of the State of Free Access to Nigerian Public Legal Information (Volume 4) — ISBN 9789083108551 (eBook) and 9789083108537 (paperback).
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