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Domestic Violence: Who is at Fault ?

The White Ribbon Campaign Australia, defines domestic violence as violence, abuse and intimidation between people who are currently or have previously been in an intimate relationship. Many children, wives and even men suffer from violence. However, Traditionally and globally, domestic violence is committed mostly against women. Women tend to be victims of domestic violence not only in their homes but also workplace and society. It could even occur between lovers who are merely cohabiting. Domestic violence takes different forms of physical, emotional, sexual, verbal, economic and religious abuse. Physical or sexual abuse are the most common type of abuse since they are easily recognizable. It is hurting or inflicting constant pain on a person which could be in form of beating, rape including marital rape and multilation. The perpetrator considers it as a medium of controlling or dominated the victim. Most times, victims of this violence do not consider themselves vic...

ALBERT OLUWOLE INTER CHAMBERS CLIENT COUNSELING COMPETITION

The Radiant justice Chambers is set to organize an inter chambers client counseling competition in honour of her late 26th lord advocate of the chambers. Lord Advocate Albert oluwole, this year’s edition has been tagged ‘THE RESOLUTION’ which is set to  have all student chambers participating, holding at the New moot and Mock court Faculty of law OAU at exactly 11am on the 30th of May 2019. Five chambers, Five Clients and Ten counsel, One crown.

MENTAL HEALTH: The reality of depression

Incidents of people committing suicide especially youngsters fill the social media. The issue of an Oau final year student who committed suicide over mental issues caused by poor academics has recently caught everyone's attention. Similar issues of a freshman committing suicide due to poor result leading to depression and students going crazy due to excessive reading has also been recorded in oau Iin the past. Other institutions have also recorded similar unfortunate incidents. Most People are ill-informed about what depression really is, it's causes and the lifestyle of a person suffering from depression. It is undeniable that mental health is as important as physical health. It should be noted that a person does not have to be visibly insane before he can be medically diagnosed as mentally ill. Some very normal people who lead very normal day to day lifestyle are mentally unstable. I have discovered this through the difference real life and fictional scenarios I have...

THE RESOLUTION

The chambers is set to organize an inter chambers client counseling competition tagged “THE RESOLUTION”  in honour of her late 26th Lord Advocate on the 30th of May 2019.  The competition is set to involve all five students chambers in the faculty namely ; Justice chambers, Equity chambers, liberation chambers, victus chambers, Magna Curia chambers. 

Yes! You can

“You will not make a good lawyer! Law is too hard for someone like you to study! Don’t deceive yourself! You’re too dumb to study law! If I were you, I won’t waste my 5 years on a course you won’t do well in even if you’re given the course to study”. These hurtful words of my friends, relatives, classmates kept ringing in my head as I filled my jamb form 2 years ago. When others started receiving admission letter and I was yet to get mine, I started to think perhaps these hurtful words were actually true. Maybe I wasn’t good enough to study law. Maybe I was really stupid to think I was fit to study law. I was starting to think maybe I was truly deceiving myself. But the determination to prove them wrong kept me hoping that I’d still get my own admission letter. This same determination has always kept me going and it would ensure I make it to the other end of the road in success. Sometimes you don’t need people to tell you that you can make it. All you need is to believe in yours...