Nigerian Law Society challenges LPPC to publish scores of SAN candidates

The Nigerian Law Society, NLS, has challenged the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, LPPC, to beryllium transparent successful the enactment of lawyers for the fertile of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN.

The NLS is simply a assemblage comprising mostly Nigerian non-litigation lawyers, who person been historically excluded from information for the SAN fertile mostly due to the fact that the criteria for the conferment of the rubric did not seizure their roles successful the ineligible profession.

The determination by members of the NLS, done the Association of Legislative and Advocacy Drafting Practitioners, ALDRAP, to present the Blue Silks fertile arsenic an alternate to the SAN rubric for non-litigation lawyers successful Nigeria has been met with stiff absorption from the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and the LPPC, arsenic good arsenic cardinal stakeholders and institutions successful the country's ineligible system.

The improvement has sparked a protracted ineligible battle. The Blue Silks fertile is the taxable of respective pending tribunal cases betwixt the non-litigation lawyers, nether the umbrella of NLS and ALDRAP, connected 1 side, and the NBA, LPPC, and immoderate large officials successful the judicial sector, including the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Mr Kabir Akanbi, connected the different side.

The LPPC precocious invited applications for the 2027 conferment of the fertile of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, fixing a non-refundable processing interest o...