NAME: UBA RITA-DORIS CHIAMAKA 
REGISTRATION NUMBER: 19/LAW01/252
LEGAL METHOD
Secondary Sources of Nigerian Law
Secondary sources of law are the sources of law that do not carry a dominant legal weight and binding
effect. The legal authorities contain in these kind of sources are diluted and persuasive which are not
binding on any court of law. According to Beredugo (2009), secondary sources of law are less
significance sources of law that carry barely persuasive legal authority or effect and are therefore ,
not binding on any court of law. Secondary sources can be useful in court of law or resorted to where
the court finds the opinion or fact underlying the authority contained therein. Secondary sources can
also be referred to in court if it supports the authorities of the primary sources. Examples of secondary
sources of Nigerian law according to Beredugo includes:
(a) decisions of courts of foreign countries
(b) International conventions, treaties, and resolutions of international bodies;
(c) Statements or opinions of jurists and learned authors contained in law textbooks, journal,
periodicals, dictionaries, letters, speeches, and interviews;
(d) legal opinions contained in nullified judgements.
Secondary sources of law also include all sources that provide helpful introductions to legal subjects,
synopses of decisions, statutes, and regulations in a given field, analyses of trends and historical
background of law, explanation of new or difficult concepts, descriptions and analysis of the law and
its developments and citations to primary sources through footnotes and annotations.
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