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Item Should Students have a right in law school(This Day News paper, 2013-06-11) Bamgbose, O.Item Reason for moratorium on execution(Tell Magazine, 2014-02-10) Bamgbose, O.Item Law as a Career(SmartBrain Educational Magazine, 2014-12) Bamgbose, O.Item The right to life and the battle over children’s life: baby Charlie Gard in perspective(Nigerian National human rights Commission, Abuja, 2017) Bamgbose, O.The Convention of the Right of the Child provides that every child has an inherent right to life. This means the child has a right to survival and development. Parents of a child have the responsibility, rights and duties to take "appropriate direction and guidance in the exercise by the child of the rights recognized in the Convention" The Government has the responsibility to ensure that the rights of a child are respected protected and fulfilled. Article 3 of the Convention states that the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration in all actions taken on behalf of a child. The paper considered the case of baby Charlie Gard, a baby boy, born in the United Kingdom on 4 August 2016, with a genetic defect resulting in a rare disease and the battle between the parents, the hospital where he was being treated for the rare disease and the court. The paper further examined, who amongst, the three, complied with Article 3 of the Convention in the legal battle. The paper also considered who had the right to decide whether Baby Charlie would live or die. The paper provided the position, in Nigeria, under the Childs Rights Act, if baby Charlie were a Nigerian childItem Access to justice for reproductive and sexual health rights of women through law faculty clinics(Yinkarec Publishers, Ibadan, 2015) Tafita, F.; Bamgbose, O.Reproductive and sexual health issues affecting women and girls include sexual abuse, rape, coercion, harassment, sexually-transmitted infections, unsafe sex, unwanted pregnancy and illegal abortion, infertility and inability to regulate fertility or negotiate sex. These are most often considered private and confidential, and victims may not desire or require the formalities and exposure of regular courts. The pro-bono legal clinics without resort to the regular courts or litigation, particularly in the resolution of issues affecting women’s reproductive and sexual health rights, is another form of access to justice. The employment of a plural normative system of resolving dispute in African lives and society remains crucial to engendering and ensuring access to justice for women. This paper discusses the concept of access to justice for women in matters affecting their reproductive and sexual health rights. It espouses the role and strategies employed by the Women’s Law Clinic, University of Ibadan in ensuring access to justice for indigent women in Ibadan area of Oyo State of Nigeria whose reproductive and sexual health rights have been violated or threatened. It concludes on the premise that access to justice against violations of reproductive and sexual health rights starts with the initiation of processes for recognition and awareness of these rights. The paper also discusses factors affecting access to justice and remedies against violations of these rights. This paper is based on a desktop and empirical research.Item Access to justice through clinical legal education: a way forward for good governance and development(Pretoria University Law Press, Pretoria, 2015) Bamgbose, O.Access to justice is a fundamental right that ought to be universal, but a lack of effective access to justice is frequently identified as a major barrier to realising human rights. This relates especially to women. Nigerian women are not sufficiently protected by the legal system. Women in Africa, generally, and in Nigeria, in particular, face numerous barriers that hinder their access to legal services and assistance from legal institutions that are set up to redress wrongs. Under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, it is the duty of government to ensure that all citizens have access to justice. Legal aid clinics have in the last decade developed alongside other governmental legal services. The article discusses the evolution of legal clinics in educational institutions and by non-governmental organisations in Nigeria and focuses in particular on how access to justice through the intervention of the Women’s Law Clinic, University of Ibadan, has impacted on governance and developmentItem Collapsed buildings sagas: liabilities under the criminal law(2015-12-10) Bamgbose, O.Item The cane, the pain and the punishment: corporal punishment in perspective(Legal blitz, 2015) Bamgbose, O.