From January to July 2021, five lawyers were disbarred, six suspended (ranging from two years to four years) the chairman, Body of Benchers, says.
The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee has sanctioned 11 lawyers in Nigeria for various acts of professional misconduct in 2021, the chair of the Nigerian Body of Benchers, Olabode Rhodes-Vivour, has said.
Mr Rhodes-Vivour gave the update on the number of lawyers that have been sanctioned for misconduct at the call-to-bar ceremony of the Nigerian Law School at the Eagle Square in Abuja ion Tuesday. Mr Rhodes-Vivour, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, “As a lawyer, you are an officer of the court. You are not to do any act or conduct yourself in a manner that will obstruct or adversely affect the course of justice.”
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