Blue Silks: Nigerian lawyers seek intervention of international legal community

Nigerian non-litigation lawyers who took up the Blue Silks fertile person cried retired to the planetary ineligible assemblage implicit alleged persecution by the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Mr. Kabir Akanbi.

Akanbi had petitioned the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, seeking sanctions connected the lawyers implicit the Blue Silks rank.

The Blue Silks rank, introduced by the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, and the Nigerian Law Society, NLS, arsenic an alternate to the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, fertile for non-litigation lawyers, is being opposed by the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, LPPC.

Akanbi, by virtuousness of his presumption arsenic Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, is besides the Secretary of the LPPC, the assemblage which confers the SAN fertile connected Nigerian lawyers.

Alleging persecution and non-adherence to the sub judice rule by Akanbi, the lawyers person forwarded petitions seeking the involution of planetary ineligible personalities and organizations, including the Lawyers astatine Risk Programme of the Law Society of England and Wales; International Law Section, American Bar Association, ABA; Yasmin Sooka, a quality rights lawyer and Executive Director of the Foundation for Human Rights, South Africa; Faith Odhiambo, Pres...