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17 Nigerian L.J. 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/nlj17 and id is 1 raw text is: 1 AN OVERVIEW OF CHILD JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE CHILD RIGHTS LEGISLATION IN NIGERIA By Emeritus Professor Adedokun A. Adeyemi* I. Introduction Legislation on Child Rights in Nigeria consists of the Child's Rights Act 2003 (CRA), and the Child Rights Laws (CRLs) of the various States of the Federation. Part XX of the CRA(sections 204 - 238)and the corresponding Parts and sections of the various CRLs, provide for Child Justice Administration, which has now replaced the Juvenile Justice Administration, which had been in existence in the various parts of the country for well over six decades.' *FNIALS, Emeritus Professor of the University, Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos; Formerly Dean, Faculty of Law, and Formerly Dean, School of Postgraduate Studies, respectively, University of Lagos; Formerly Director, Justice Division, United Nations Operation in Somalia, (UNOSOM II); Formerly Member of the United Nations Committee on Crime Prevention and Control; Vice-Presidentfor Africa, International Society of Social Defence; Member, International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, and Formerly Member of its Executive Committee, and Former Co-Chairman of its Human Rights Network; Member of the Council, International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme (ISPAC);Past President, Board of Trustees of the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) in Turin, Italy; Past Chairman, National Committee on Crime Prevention and the Treatment of Offenders; Past Chairman, National Committee on Prison Reform; Chairman, Nigerian National Working Group on Alternatives to Imprisonment; Chairman, Nigerian National Working Group on Juvenile/Child Justice Administration; Chairman, National Technical Committee on the Establishment of Pro Bono Services and Diversion in the Family Courts; Consultant to the UNODC, Vienna, and UNDOC, Justice Matters; Consultant to UNICEF on Child Rights and Child Protection Issues; Member, Nigerian National Child Rights Implementation Committee; Member, Lagos State Child Rights Implementation Committee; etc.; being the expanded text of a paper earlier delivered at the UNICEF/NHRC Meeting on A Study of Remand Homes, Using the Measurement of Juvenile Justice Indicators, held at Abuja, 4 - 6 August 2009. Since July 1946, via the Children and Young Persons Act, (CYPA), Cap. 32, Vol. I, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria and Lagos, 1958. The relevant provisions are contained in its Part II, that is, sections 3 - 16. But since the operation of the 1979 Constitution, the matters relating to children has been transferred to the Residual List of Legislative powers. Accordingly, States now have the power to legislate on matters affecting children, with the CYPA since becoming just a model legislation for the States.

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