Blue Silks: Non-litigation lawyers file lawsuits against Supreme Court chief registrar’s LPDC petition

Nigerian non-litigation lawyers person approached the Federal High Court sitting successful Abuja and the National Industrial Court of Nigeria to situation a petition against the Blue Silks rank, filed earlier the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, by the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Mr Kabir Akanbi.

A suit brought earlier the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, numbered NICN/ABJ/363/2026, has the non-litigation lawyers, nether the aegis of Incorporated Trustees of Association of Legislative Drafting Practitioners, ALDRAP, and Dr Tonye Clinton Jaja, arsenic plaintiffs. The respondents are LPDC, Body of Benchers, Akanbi and the Federal Judicial Service Commission.

The non-litigation lawyers, successful the suit, asked the tribunal to state that the determination of the LPDC to accept, entertain and proceed with the petition filed by Akanbi against the plaintiffs, with an bid for substituted service, is unconstitutional, ultra vires, unlawful, null and void, and liable to beryllium quashed by certiorari for violating sections 36(6), 36(9) and 36(12) of the Constitution and Rules 32 and 33 of the Rules of Professional Conduct, 2023.

The plaintiffs arsenic asked the tribunal to state that enforcement wherever nary appellate mechanics exists astatine the LPDC violates sections 36(1), 36(2)(b) of the Constitution arsenic held...