Lawyers file petitions against Chief Judge over alleged discriminatory, prejudicial actions

An relation of Nigerian legislative lawyers has filed petitions against the Chief Judge, CJ, of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, implicit alleged discriminatory and prejudicial actions against non-litigation ineligible practitioners successful the country.

In the petition signed by Dr Tonye Clinton Jaja, Executive Secretary, the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, urged the National Judicial Council, NJC, and the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, to analyse the alleged discriminatory and prejudicial actions by the CJ.

ALDRAP accused the CJ of frustrating its moves to present the Blue Silks fertile for Nigerian non-litigation lawyers, arsenic an alternate to the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, rubric which is usually awarded to lawyers engaged successful litigation signifier by the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, LPPC.

In a petition dated August 18, 2026, the lawyers’ relation urged the NJC to analyse the behaviour of the CJ successful a suit involving ALDRAP and the LPPC.

Parts of the petition read, “Is it not a usurpation of the judicial codification of behaviour for the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court earlier whom a suit was pending, the said suit involving 2 litigants namely Mr. Kabir Akanbi, Secretary of the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) and th...