Despite restraining order, ALDRAP insists on Blue Silks, says judgment contradicted Supreme Court

Despite an Abuja Federal High Court judgement that stopped it from conferring the Blue Silks fertile connected Nigeria lawyers, the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, has said it volition spell up with the activity.

ALDRAP had introduced the Blue Silks fertile arsenic an alternate to the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, rubric conferred connected lawyers adjudged to person merited the honour.

But the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, rejected the Blue Silks rank, describing it arsenic illegal. In the aforesaid vein, the NBA’s Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, LPPC, which is liable for conferring the SAN title, warned that lawyers parading the Blue Silks fertile hazard being sanctioned for nonrecreational misconduct.

Following the threat, ALDRAP, approached an Abuja Federal High Court to support its members’ cardinal rights, and besides to halt the NBA and others from interfering successful matters concerning the Blue Silks rank.

But the court, presided by Justice James Omotosho, ruled successful favour of the NBA and different respondents, and went up to marque an bid of perpetual injunction restraining the applicants – ALDRAP and its Executive Secretary, Dr Tonye Clinton Jaja – from continuing to confer the Blue Silks rank.

ALDRAP had already filed a announcement of entreaty and enactment of execution to challenge...