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PROGRAMMES
Access to Justice work is operated under three mutually reinforcing programmes: these are

• The Judicial Integrity and Independence Programme ( JIIP )
  Publications under this Programme include:
  The Justice Observatory Journal Vol 1 - 4
  The Balance of Justice
  
  

• The Legal Access Programmes (LAP)
  Publications under this Programme include:
  The Coroners Place Vols 1 & 2
  Breaking Point
  
  

• The Legal Resources Programme (LRP)
  Publications under this Programme include:
  Cases on Human Rights
  Advocacy Series
  

Through a set of performance monitoring and integrity enhancing projects, Access to Justice is helping to restore and rebuild confidence in the Nigeria Justice System. AJ targets reform initiatives that ensure results that are cogent, enduring and effective and are not easily reversible by vicissitudes of political or social circumstance.

THE CONTEXT OF AJ'S WORK
Nigeria's legal and judicial procedures are still steeped in a slow-paced, erratic, and costly regime, while reforms to expand the courts' powers to use modern day technology- like the computer- to gather, disseminate or verify information, process cases, improve case management procedure, reduce inefficiency and waste and make its work more accessible are not underway in most parts of Nigeria: so too are reforms lacking in other areas, for example, the preferment and use of legal evidence, timely response to urgencies, paper-clogged registries and bureacracies, etc.

Moreover, courts rules of procedure and case-flow systems are not regularly revised and updated to make them capable of managing ever-expanding trial dockers: trial procedures and infrastructure are obsolate and retarding while the general work environment is hostle for the judicial function. Several years after colonial rule, the judicial systems have almost remained frozen in the mould they were cast and bequeathed, even though important and far-reaching developments have taken place in the countries from where they were introduced.