I have read many comments on this topic highlighting different opinions on the reformation of the Rank of Senior Advocates of Nigeria. The goal of this exercise was originally to commend the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee...
A cross section of the new Senior Advocates of Nigeria during their inauguration in Abuja…yesterday. PHOTO: PHILIP OJISUA
No one faulted the review of the procedure adopted by the LPPC over the years for the selection of candidates for the Rank as most people who commented dwelt on the suggestions that I have proffered. I will now attempt some clarification, in the hope that this will provide the needed understanding of the issues.
Most of what we do in the courtrooms is plain advocacy which of course can be and is most usually aided by research. The art of cross-examination of witnesses, admissibility of documents, of the general conduct of trial and the settlement of pleadings all have no bearing with the academic exercise of mentoring students to pass their examinations.
Many in the academics and some of legal practitioners see the arguments as needless and have held the views that myself and Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa SAN and others are generating needless controversies. Unfortunately, we are being misunderstood. But is Adegboruwa SAN and myself wrong in the concerns we raised? I do not think so. Let us go to the place where we borrowed the concept of this Rank from. It is from the UK. It is called QC there and now KC.
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