«The Orderly Society Trust»

The primary aim of The Orderly society Trust is to nurture and support institutions, ideas, values, practices and conventions which support ‘order’ in society.

The Orderly Society Trust seeks to intervene in the process of finding answers to the difficult issues of creating an Orderly Society by promoting initiatives which support:

• The Rule of law,
  The Trust will recognize and celebrate in creative ways, judicial courage and resourcefulness, promote research and ideas on speedier and fairer justice delivery and judicial independence.
  
  The Trust will also recognize and celebrate individuals, communities and businesses which contribute significantly to clean and orderly environment. It will promote research and ideas on effective strategies and best practices for maintaining civil behavior.
  
  
• Transparency and Accountability,
  The Trust will support public and private anti-corruption initiatives, assist in the building of capacity to fight corruption, promote ideas and research on enhancing transparency in government procurement and services, and strategies for establishing accountability in systems and processes.

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«JRI at Ford Foundation Anniversary»

The Ford Foundation gave out it first grant in Nigeria, September 1958, 50 years later its still impacting lives in the country. To celebrate their 50th anniversary, Ford Foundation has invited participants from the public and private sector to an event tagged "Open for Business: The NGO marketplace, Roundtable and exhibition". This would take place at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos and would showcase some of their grantees who have become Nigeria's most effective non-governmental organization.

As a grantee, Justice Research Institute and its sister organization (the Orderly Society Trust) will be participating at the fair. For more information about the event and the works of the Orderly Society Trust please click on the link below.

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«Judges Training At The Elias Centre»

The Lagos State Judicial Service Commission recently appointed six new judges to the State's High Court, the training session was facilitated by the Justice Research Institute. The first part of the training commenced on the 7th of April 2008, at the Elias Centre. In attendance on the first day were Mr Supo Shasore (SAN), Hon. Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice Lagos State, Hon Justice Ade Alabi, Chief Judge of Lagos State, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), Director, Justice Research Institute, Justice O. O. Oke and the newly appointed judges. A typical training day started with a paper presentation by an Honorable Judge on various aspects of substantive and procedural law.

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« The Justice Emmanuel Ayoola Foundation »

Hon Justice Emmanuel Olayinka Ayoola , former Judge of the Supreme Court of Nigeria was appointed Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (Nigeria) in December 2005, a position he holds till date.

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« Library and Information Services »

JRI runs an Integrated Digital Legal Research Information System which contains an electronic database of information on key institutions, other information considered to be critical to the justice sector and a wide range of online legal resources.

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