Tuesday, November 25, 2025 - A legal technology company, LawPavilion, said the recently unveiled Artificial Intelligence will proffer long-awaited assistance to Nigerian judges in achieving speedy justice delivery.
Introduced at the All Nigeria Judges Conference in Abuja,
the Managing Director, LawPavilion, Mr Ope Olugasa, said the innovation
will digitally transform the Nigerian justice system by providing answers to
the perennial backlog of cases.
“Behind each case number is a human story – a widow waiting
for her inheritance, a business owner seeking redress and a citizen denied
constitutional rights. The solution to this crisis is already here. AI is not
the future of judicial practice but our opportunity to eliminate backlogs if we
embrace it”, Olugasa said.
Unlike general-purpose AI systems, Olugasa assured that
LawPavilion AI is specifically trained on a verified database of Nigerian
Supreme Court and Court of Appeal decisions, Nigerian laws, regulations and
civil procedure rules.
“This specialised training ensures the system never
hallucinates or fabricates non-existent cases.”
Olugasa added that the platform features robust data
protection mechanisms to protect the privacy and confidentiality of
sensitive case information. According to him, the new technology prides itself
on its sophisticated “draft Judgment” feature, which can harmonise multiple
final written addresses from counsel, pleadings, witness statements, exhibits
and other evidence.
“LawPavilion AI platform provides judges with comprehensive
summaries of case materials, intelligent assessment, evaluation of evidence and
suggested issues for determination, legal opinions supported and justifications
linked to precedents that can be verified directly on the platform.
“With Nigeria having just six judges per million citizens,
far lower than other African countries, the need for technological intervention
is urgent.
“LawPavilion projects that comprehensive AI implementation
can realistically reduce Nigeria’s case backlog by 30 to 40 per cent within
three years, clearing over 600,000 cases and preventing future accumulation”,
Olugasa said.
He also doused fears about AI hallucination, confidentiality
and judges’ replacement, stressing that “domain-specific and the
‘human-in-the-loop’ system, enables the AI to cite only verifiable Nigerian
cases backed by transparent, explainable reasoning.
He equally informed that LawPavilion AI cannot replace
judges. “Justice requires judgment, not just logic. It requires moral
reasoning, empathy and discretion. Our constitution vests judicial power in
human beings and the final gavel will always be in a human hand”, Olugasa said.
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