Jos branch of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), has outlined activities to mark its Law Week 2023, starting with Juma’at prayer at the Yantaya Mosque in Jos, the Plateau State capital, Friday November 1 to climax Wednesday December 6, 2023 with annual law dinner.
The Jos branch Chairman of NBA, Barr. Izang Aware, Esq, disclosed this Thursday, while addressing journalists at the press conference organised by the association on the occasion marking the 2023 Law Week, held at the Plateau State Headquarters of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Jos.
Other activities following the Juma’at prayer include road walk and sporting activities Saturday. Thanksgiving service and cocktail party in honour of Philemon A. Daffi, Esq, the Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice, Plateau State will hold on Sunday December 3, 2023 respectively.
Also, the lined up of the activities included; FIDA Session, Human Rights Committee, Young Lawyers Forum, Bar and Bench Relations Committee and Public Private Development Centre among others in that order.
According to Chairman, “the Law Week, with the theme: “Law and Policy: A Chequered Odyssey”, the theme for this year’s Law Week resonates with the contemporary times. As legs practitioners, the jurisdictional definition of the law is inherent as a result of the training of the lawyers.
“Apparently, from the definition, notwithstanding that policy dwells more in the firmament of public administration. Yet, as legal practitioners, our law offices will be functional and effective where they are predicated upon the twin pillars of law and policy.
“Other stakeholders in the justice set administration such as the Judiciary, Armed Forces, the Nigeria Police, Department of State Security, Nigeria Correctional Service, etc, will be functional if there is a practical interplay between law and policy.
“Other words that connote the same meaning as policy are strategy, plans, blueprint, scheme, etc because we want to have an impact on specific problems bedeviling Plateau State. We shall be having breakfast sessions where the Human Rights Committee of the Branch as well as the Young Lawyers Forum of the Branch will discuss key areas of the larger theme from the problem of Human Trafficking”, he enthused.
