I was excited to welcome Mrs Achere Cole to the Expert Views on ADR (EVA) Podcast Show. She is the Ag. Director of the Lagos Multi-Door Courthouse.

 LMDC is the first Multi-Door Courthouse or Court-Connected ADR centre in Africa. Mrs Cole was amongst the dignitaries appointed to set up the first Restorative Justice Manual in Nigeria. She has national and regional experience building ADR mechanisms and capacity.   

Mrs Cole consulted for the Judiciary of Kenya and the International Development Law Organization on a project to support the implementation of the Sustaining Judiciary Transformation Blueprint. She is a CEDR Accredited Mediator, Arbitrator, ADR and Restorative Justice Trainer. 

 Mrs Cole wears many hats, so I have left the link to her profile below:  https://lagosmultidoor.org/dr2/ 

We discussed the role of the Lagos Multi-Door Courthouse (LMDC) in Nigeria and its newest door -Restorative Justice (focuses on Minor Criminal Offences and aims to restore or repair the harm caused by the offender) while touching on several aspects of Industrial relations in Nigeria.

* It is pertinent to point out that for the first time, my PhD findings (2019-2022) (Dr Chinwe Egbunike-Umegbolu) revealed that minor criminal matters were settled via Mediation / the Restorative Justice Door in Nigeria precisely in Lagos Multi-Door Courthouse (LMDC) and Enugu State Multi-Door Courthouse (ESMDC) precisely via Mediation.