PWAN has been involved in contributing to building and strengthening the social accountability of the judicial sector since 2016, by collaborating with the judiciary to have citizens observers placed in selected courts to assess the court processes and in recent times the compliance to the Administration of Criminal Justice Act in the Federal Capital Territory and the Administration of Criminal Justice Laws in Ondo and Lagos States with support from the MacArthur Foundation.
Observation of courts began in October 2017, and since then the project has disseminated findings to (1) Stakeholders in the criminal justice sector; specifically, to the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Administration of Criminal Justice Monitoring Committee (ACJMC) and National Judicial Council (NJC), and (2) The Media, the General public, Civil Society and other relevant stakeholders through public release of findings of the events and social media engagement.
The findings in this report are based on observation over a period of nine months which is October 2018- June 2019 in the FCT, Lagos and Ondo States. It comprises of data from the Daily Court Observation and Criminal Justice Actors Survey.
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