One of the major avenues recognized globally for accessing justice is the court of law. In Nigeria and United States of America (USA), the Constitution recognize the creation of courts to pave way for citizens’ right of access to justice. Despite that, the citizens encounter some challenges which prevent them from free access to court. The challenges often arise from the Rules of Court or other subsidiary legislations. The objectives of this paper include: (1). to explore legal measures to ameliorate the injustice being occasioned by prospective litigants; (2). to analyse the extent of implementation of the citizens’ rights of access to court in Nigeria and United States of America (USA); and (3). to examine whether access to court necessarily entails access to justice. The paper employed qualitative methodology, which entails doctrinal approaches. The doctrinal approach involved the use of primary and secondary sources of legal materials. The paper concluded that, in order to have effective and efficient access to court in Nigeria, there is need to ensure that all the impediments examined in this paper are not used to take away individual’s right of access to court but to ensure that justice is done to all parties before the court, the court itself and the society at large.