Abstract
Court rules for enforcing human rights should, firstly, be flexible and liberal, and, secondly, should be liberally applied and purposively interpreted. The goal should be to advance and realize the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and international instruments. Arid legalism should be a thing of the past. Human rights enforcement procedure should be so simple and user-friendly that non-lawyers with average high school education will be able to prepare and file human rights suits with little or no professional help.The Office of the Public Defender of Lagos State is the first of its kind in Nigeria. The legal staff of the OPD, though government employees, launch and fight human rights suits against government agencies. And they do so vigorously.The Nigerian legal community, particularly the judges, are yet to imbibe the liberal human rights civilization ushered in by the Constitution of Nigeria in 1999. When they do so, the work of the OPD will prosper even more.
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