Supreme Court restores Oyinlola’s lawyer, Kalejaiye’s SAN title
pped of the rank by the Legal Practitioners and Disciplinary Committee in 2015 for engaging in professional misconduct.
In a unanimous judgment delivered Friday, a five-member panel of justices of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Mohammed Dattijo upheld Kalejaye’s appeal for reasons that the trial procedure at the LDPC was defective. The senior lawyer had gone to the Supreme Court, to among other prayers, set aside the directive by the LPDC that he should be disbarred on ground of professional misconduct.
In the notice of appeal filed by Kalejaye’s legal team, led by Dr. Alex Izinyon , the appellant raised eight grounds. “The appellant, from the onset, denied any communication with the said judge. There was no evidence before the committee on what was communicated between the appellant and the said judge. The purported call log did not show the content of the said communication.
“The committee placed heavy reliance on record of proceedings contained in the call logs which were computer-generated, but did not satisfy the requirement of the Evidence Act. No witness gave evidence on behalf of the complainant,” the appellant said as part of the particulars of error canvassed in the first ground of appeal,” he said.
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