Blue Silks: Lawyers petition DSS, PCC over alleged persecution by Supreme court chief registrar

Nigerian non-litigation lawyers person petitioned the Department of State Services, DSS, and the Office of the Ombudsman, Public Complaints Commission, PCC, alleging persecution by the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Mr. Kabir Akanbi, implicit the Blue Silks rank.

The petitions by the non-litigation lawyers, nether the aegis of Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, and the Nigerian Law Society, NLS, followed an earlier petition lodged earlier the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, by Akanbi against Executive Secretary of the NLS, Dr Tonye Clinton Jaja and lawyers who were conferred with the Blue Silks rank.

Akanbi, by virtuousness of his presumption arsenic Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, is besides the Secretary of the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, LPPC, a assemblage which confers the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, rubric connected lawyers successful the country.

The Blue Silks rank, introduced by ALDRAP and NLS arsenic an alternate to the SAN rubric for non-litigation lawyers, is being opposed by the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and the LPPC.

In the petition to the DSS, signed by Executive Secretary of the NLS, Jaja, the non-litigation lawyers requested the "urgent intervention" of the bureau "to forestall a imaginable breakdown of instrumentality and bid and nationalist information by th...