Pro Bono Services Are Not Mere Privileges, They are Immutable Rights!- Adeoye Damilare Adetayo

The raging economic downturn has continued to cause disastrous cutbacks for the legal services providers in our community over the years, bringing the unmet civil legal needs of the poor to crisis levels. It must be stated at this juncture that several lawyers, groups, firms and non-governmental organizations in Nigeria have at one point or the other, either presently or in the past, assisted in providing free legal services in our communities but had to grind to a halt due to lack of morale support, fund and man power.