The Nigeria Judiciary has called for closed collaboration between the academia and the judiciary to improve legal practice in Nigeria.

Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, made this call on Monday, stressing that quality of judgment will improve with such collaboration and further build judges’ intellectual capacity.

Deliberating on this while declaring open the week-long Annual Scholarship Festival of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) in Lagos, Justice Murkhtar emphasized that the partnership will build a pragmatic judiciary and develop legal jurisprudence in shifting the frontiers of law.

“We, thus, need to strengthen the relationship between judges and academics by making academics more responsive to the needs of the judiciary and making judges more sensitive to feedback from the academia,” Justice Mukhtar said.