CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW & POLICY REPORTS WITH SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVES
INDEX TO EDUCATION, WOMEN AND CHILDREN CONNECTED COURT CASES
TITLE | MAIN ISSUES |
A.C.B. LTD V. KOTUN
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Women in Business – Women and Education – Illiterate Woman engaged in international transaction and as guarantor for a credit facility to a third party – Statutory protections under Illiterate Protection statutes – Issues arising therefrom – How treated |
AKINTEMI AND 2 OTHERS V. PROF. C. A. ONWUMECHILI AND 2 OTHERS | Young Women and Education – Access to tertiary education attainments and awards – Three female students of the University of Ife refused award of law degrees who sought to compel the school to do so – How treated |
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Children and Security of Education Centers – Death of 8 year old on school playground due to vehicle which crashed through school’s bamboo fence – How treated |
BADEJO V. FEDERAL MINISTER OF EDUCATION | Children/Women and Justice Administration/Education/Human Rights – Girl-child and quota system in Nigeria – Denial of access TO publicly sponsored educational opportunity on the basis of the circumstances of birth – Whether discriminatory and unconstitutional – How treated |
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Children and Justice Administration – Will and Estate – Children and Education – Education and Material Security of children born out of wedlock |
DIBIE & OTHERS V. THE STATE | Security of Household, property and family life – Women as direct and indirect victims of crime – Education – Young people in schools and crime – Armed robbery – Woman robbed at gunpoint of her valuables by students – How treated |
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Young people and Education – Yong people and Justice administration – Boarding students in Federal Government Colleges who take their bath in streams – Murder arising from altercations on the way – Students as witnesses at consequent murder trial – Implications for justice administration and education infrastructure |
FALOBI V. FALOBI |
Women and Justice Administration –Wife and children deserted by husband/father – Appropriate court proceedings and orders/reliefs – Women in Employment – Wage earning wives –Relevance for quantum of maintenance orders courts are prepared to make against their spouses Children and Security of Education/Wellbeing – Use of court orders to secure the education and wellbeing of young persons |
HEWER V. BRYANT
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Young people and Education – Young people and justice administration – Young people and custody – Vocational education in a farming education facility for a minor not academically proficient – A parent’s right of custody over child in an education or vocational training facility – Nature of – Parent’s right to his children in their law-suits without being guilty of the legal crime of maintaining quarrels – Persons entitled to sue as child’s next friend Infants and custody rights of parent – Test to be applied – When to infer that infant is in the custody of a parent – Where the father or some other parent is or is not away from the infant for a period or periods – Where the parent allows the infant the freedom to do as he likes – Where someone else has temporarily been given the duty of the day-to-day control of the infant – Whether in all such cases the custody remains – Whether an essential characteristic of such custody is the right to control the infant’s life coupled with the capacity to exercise that control, whether arising from economic circumstances or otherwise |
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