A Study On Admiralty Litigation Agreement Jurisdiction System In Nigeria

With the development of the economic globalization and integration, China and Nigeria became increasingly close in economic and trade exchanges. Chinese enterprises ’investments and trades are increasing and is bound to cause trade friction and conflict, the admiralty disputes will also increase. Once a dispute arises, one of the parties submits the dispute to jurisdiction of the court is a first issue that needs to solve. As one of the main ways of admiralty jurisdiction, the agreement jurisdiction is not in conflict with the exclusive jurisdiction, by which the parties may choose the court to solve the dispute. In order to protect Chinese enterprises’ legal interests, and solve admiralty disputes between the parties, we need to study the admiralty litigation agreement jurisdiction system in Nigeria and make use of this system to protect our interests.Through consult lots of information, we have general understanding of the systems in Nigeria. Nigerian admiralty litigation agreement jurisdiction system of historial development, the effect of jurisdiction agreement. The application of jurisdiction agreement, and the systems evaluation and impact of our enterprises is introduced. First of all, we introduce the system of historial development, Nigeria was British colony, many legal systems are brought to Nigeria during the reign of British colonists. Therefore, the legal system of Nigeria is deeply influenced by British legal system. Especially the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act issued in 1890 has an effect on Nigeria admiralty act. And analysis of the agreement jurisdiction system of jurisdiction agreement effect, if the effectiveness of the agreement is determined, we consider whether the admiralty disputes of the parties are within the scope of the jurisdiction of the court, and how to use the international convention and principle to solve the dispute. Finally, we analyse the systems evaluation, such as characteristic,defect and development prospect, and impact of our enterprises.Because the agreement jurisdiction system respects the wishes of parties, parties are more willing to choose the court to solve the dispute by themselves. So admiralty litigation agreement jurisdiction system is one of the most effective and representative system to solve the admiralty cases. At the same time, the agreement jurisdiction is one of the most common jurisdiction ways. The admiralty litigation agreement jurisdiction systems have an important roles in the effective resolution of the admiralty disputes.