We’ve autonomy to confer Blue Silks rank on Nigerian lawyers – NLS, BOSCON to NBA

Amid the contention and ineligible quality surrounding the instauration of the Blue Silks arsenic an alternate to the rubric of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, for lawyers successful Nigeria, the Nigerian Law Society, NLS, and the Body of Senior Counsel of Nigeria, BOSCON, person declared that they person autonomy to confer the rank.

DAILY POST reports that the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, had introduced the Blue Silks fertile arsenic an alternate to the 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 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 from continuing to confer the Blue Silks rank.

With ALDRAP ...