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NBA-AGC 2022 AND THE “VANDALS OF TIMID TRANSITION”: WHAT’S IN A BAG AND WATER BOTTLE?

Lawyers are trained to imbibe special personality traits which make them natural leaders who positively influence others. Lawyers are expected to be decorous and respectful always, and to exhibit excellent character at all times especially in public places. But some lawyers who forced themselves into the registration booth at the Nigerian Bar Association Annual General […]

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August 28, 2022
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HOW LPDC “PERVERSELY” BREACHED THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF A LAWYER SOUGHT TO BE DEROBED

The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) is the body charged with the responsibility to hear and determine allegations of professional misconduct against any legal practitioner in Nigeria. Although the LPDC is not a regular court, it however ranks as a “court” in the sense that an appeal can be lodged against its decision; and it […]

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October 31, 2021
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HOW EFCC MOVED TO BRING LAWYERS UNDER S. 25 OF THE MONEY LAUNDERING ACT THROUGH THE BACK DOOR

The Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 (“The Act”) contains elaborate provisions for the combating of money laundering activities in the country. The Act gave a number of obligations to financial institutions and designated non-financial institutions geered towards achieving the objectives of the Act. For instance, there is the duty to verify identity of customers (Section […]

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August 3, 2021
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RETAINERSHIP AGREEMENT GOES SOUR: SERIOUS LESSONS FOR LAWYERS

A retainership agreement is one of the ways the services of a legal practitioner may be booked by a client for a particular period. By the nature of such agreements, the legal practitioner is expected to give the client legal cover for the specified period with respect to a range of legal services that may […]

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February 6, 2020
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Lawyer derobed for fraudulently increasing the price of property.

Summary of Facts Adapted from the Judgment of Bage, JSC: Anthony Ojigho v. NBA & LPDC (2019) LPELR-46895(SC); [2019] 9 NWLR (Pt. 1678) 399. A lawyer, Mr. Anthony Ojigho, was petitioned for fraudulently increasing the price of a property which the Petitioner (Banjo Onanubi) paid the vendor through the lawyer. It was alleged that the […]

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July 30, 2019
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Supreme Court maintains that NBA lacks legal personality.

Moses v. Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) [2019] 8 NWLR (Pt. 1673) 59 at 69, para. H, per Augie, JSC: “The bottom line is that the Respondent (NBA) cannot be sued in its name, which is what this Court held in Fawehinmi v. NBA (No. 2) (supra) decided in April, 1989, and it is safe to […]

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July 16, 2019
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Can a signature defect in a court process be cured by an affidavit?

Raji v. UNILORIN [2018] 15 NWLR (Pt. 1642) 220 at 236, paras. G-H, per Rhodes-Vivour, JSC: “Deposing to an affidavit to explain irredeemable flaws in the signing of the Notice of Appeal is a worthless exercise since processes must be seen to have been properly signed, just by looking at it and not by examining […]

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November 19, 2018
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Falsification of age for election purposes must relate to circumventing the age limit to contest the election.

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It is an attitude of a rogue for learned counsel to lie on his health condition just to delay a matter.

Hallam Satmak v. Commissioner of Police & Anor. – Suit No. PLD/J148M/2016, Per Longji J.: “Well, my obseevation was that of bewilderment; that a counsel should lie with his health that he was hospitalised, just to delay the hearing of this matter is indeed shameful and uncalled for. It is unbecoming of a lawyer, […]

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January 23, 2018
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It is unethical for a lawyer to depose to an affidavit on behalf of his client in a case.

Bala v. Dikko [2013] 4 NWLR (Pt. 1343) 52 at 60 para G-H, per Mohammed, JSC: “…It [is] unethical and quite contrary to the Rules of Professional Conduct in the Legal Profession for… counsel to have filed the motion and also at the same time pose as a vital witness in the affidavit in support of […]

stephenazubuike
October 25, 2016
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