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The decision effectively struck out Legal Practitioners as one of the non-financial institutions required to file Cash Transaction Report with Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering “SCUMUL”, an enforcement hitherto under the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission- EFCC pursuant to the provisions of the Money Laundering Act 2011.
In a related case, Fayose then governor of Ekiti State challenged EFCC where the commission had frozen his personal account after they allegedly said they traced N4.7b from the office of the National Security Adviser to his account. In a communique issued at the end of NBA’s National Executive Council, NEC, meeting held in Abuja, the association insisted that the fees that are paid by a client to his lawyer are not only a matter of privilege but also contractual.
The association held and one should agree that client, lawyer privilege has over time been judicially and historically acknowledged. Until the ill-advised onslaught by EFCC on the Legal Profession it was reasonably settled law that issues of fees, as between a lawyer and his client, was a matter of privilege.
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