Case Law

Use of abbreviated names by legal practitioners appears risky but the Supreme Court has come to the rescue.

Dankwambo v. Abubakar [ 2016] 2 NWLR (Pt. 1495) 157 at 208, paras. C-F, per Ariwoola, JSC: “There are many senior legal practitioners and Judicial Officers whose first name as it appears on the roll of legal professionals of the Supreme Court of Nigeria has been abbreviated as it stands today, yet that abbreviation has […]