ALDRAP vs NBA: Court set to deliver judgment on Blue Silks rank

An Abuja Federal High Court is acceptable to present judgement connected the arguable Blue Silks fertile of Senior Counsel of Nigeria, SCN, which the promoters introduced arsenic an alternate to the fertile of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, successful the ineligible assemblage successful Nigeria.

Judgment successful the lawsuit is acceptable to beryllium delivered connected April 2, 2026.

The Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, had introduced the Blue Silk fertile for non-litigation lawyers successful Nigeria arsenic alternate to the SAN rubric which is conferred connected ineligible practitioners adjudged to person demonstrated exceptional favoritism successful ineligible practice.

The SAN rank, conferred connected lawyers by the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, LPPC, is seen arsenic the astir prestigious honour successful the ineligible assemblage successful Nigeria.

But ALDRAP’s determination to present an alternate to the SAN fertile for non-litigation lawyers with the Blue Silks, which includes titles specified arsenic Senior Counsel of Nigeria, SCN, and Senior Legal Academic, SLA, has been opposed by stakeholders successful the ineligible profession, peculiarly the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA.

Following the announcement of the instauration of the Blue Silks rank, the NBA took the promoters, ALDRAP and its Executive Secretary, Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja, to court, arguing that their enactment is simply a usurpation of the Legal Practitioners Act, 1...