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Technological, economic, and socio-cultural factors pose the formidable challenge of performing that duty. This study aims to articulate systematically the emerging doctrine of public access to legislation, with particular emphasis on its inherent human rights; to evaluate critically its implementation in the United Kingdom and Nigeria, using a comparative approach; and to propose functional initiatives for improvement and reform in both jurisdictions and on the global level. It is limited to <em>textual<\/em> access, with only brief references to <em>intelligible<\/em> and <em>organisational<\/em> access. The comparative law research method advocated by Professor Reitz was used. Relevant field surveys were conducted for purposes of ascertaining the available means of providing public access to legislation in both jurisdictions. In addition, the researcher developed a <em>model<\/em> for generating <em>quantitative assessment<\/em> in comparative law methodology. The major human rights inherent in public access to legislation are the right of access to public information, right to education, right to indigenous languages, disability rights, and right of access to public service and participation in public affairs. The United Kingdom has recorded significant progress as opposed to Nigeria, where public access to legislation is virtually non-existent, which suggests the likelihood of this trend between some developed and developing countries, based on objective parameters. Many countries are likely to benefit from the numerous national and global initiatives proposed for enhancing public access to legislation, which include creation of the <em>right of access to legislation<\/em> as a new human right and amendment of Article 2(4) of the <em>Berne Convention<\/em> to encourage the exemption of copyright from legislation and other Government works.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Keywords:<\/strong>\u00a0Public Access to legislation, Right of free access to public legal information, Doctrine of ignorance of the law is no excuse, Presumption of knowledge of the law, Berne Convention, United Kingdom Legislation, Nigerian Legislation, Comparative law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leesi Ebenezer Mitee Oxford University Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) citation (adjusted): Leesi Ebenezer Mitee, &#8216;Public Access to Legislation and Its Inherent Human Rights: A Comparative Study of the United Kingdom and Nigeria&#8217; (LLM dissertation, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom 2006) Abstract The doctrine of ignorance<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nigerianlawyersdirectory.com\/research\/leesi-ebenezer-mitee-llm-dissertation-abstract\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[93,91],"tags":[100,103,98,94,102,99,96,97,101,95],"class_list":["entry","author-nigerianlegalresearch","post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-master-of-laws-llm-dissertations-abstracts","category-nigerian-law-phd-theses-and-llm-dissertations-abstracts-database","tag-berne-convention","tag-comparative-law","tag-doctrine-of-ignorance-of-the-law-is-no-excuse","tag-leesi-ebenezer-mitee-llm-dissertation","tag-nigerian-legislation","tag-presumption-of-knowledge-of-the-law","tag-public-access-to-legislation","tag-right-of-free-access-to-public-legal-information","tag-united-kingdom-legislation","tag-university-of-huddersfield-england-united-kingdom"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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His New 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) \u2014 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) \u2014 ISBN 9789083108568 (eBook) and 9789083108544 (paperback); Innovative Technological Mechanisms for Adequate Web-Based Access to National and Global Public Legal Information (Volume 3) \u2014 ISBN 9789083108513 (eBook) and 9789083108582 (paperback); and A Model Empirical Study of the Current State of Governmental Provision of Free Access to Nigerian Public Legal Information (Volume 4) \u2014 ISBN 9789083108551 (eBook) and 9789083108537 (paperback). The Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Advocacy (HURAPLA) website (https:\/\/publiclegalinformation.com) contains details of the availability of these books and valuable legal information resources. 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I am requesting your kind assistance to complete this online questionnaire, which is for Nigerian Lawyers (that is, persons who have been called to the Nigerian Bar\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Nigerian Law: Journal Articles &amp; Free Access To Nigerian Laws (Legal Information)&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Nigerian Law: Journal Articles &amp; Free Access To Nigerian Laws (Legal Information)","link":"https:\/\/nigerianlawyersdirectory.com\/research\/nigerian-law\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Empirical Legal Research Questionnaire On Nigerian Law By Leesi Ebenezer Mitee","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nigerianlawyersdirectory.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Empirical-Legal-Research-Questionnaire-On-Nigerian-Law-By-Leesi-Ebenezer-Mitee.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nigerianlawyersdirectory.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Empirical-Legal-Research-Questionnaire-On-Nigerian-Law-By-Leesi-Ebenezer-Mitee.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nigerianlawyersdirectory.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Empirical-Legal-Research-Questionnaire-On-Nigerian-Law-By-Leesi-Ebenezer-Mitee.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":568,"url":"https:\/\/nigerianlawyersdirectory.com\/research\/towards-effective-legal-writing-in-nigeria\/","url_meta":{"origin":307,"position":4},"title":"Towards Effective Legal Writing In Nigeria","author":"Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"By Ekokoi Solomon[1] Abstract This article examines legal writing \u2013 an important module in legal training in law faculties of Nigerian universities, albeit the teaching of legal research and writing have not been accorded the high priority they deserve. 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