The on-going move by the Court of Appeal to make lawyers its members on that bench is encouraging and worthy of being pursued to its logical end.
For one, lawyers are suitable candidates for appointment as judges to the Appeal Court so long as they meet the constitutional requirement of a minimum of 12 years at the Bar. Secondly, making lawyers from the Bar and from the academia as judges has the potential of infusing the Court of Appeal with the vibrancy of advocacy and legal scholarship, a virtue most needed by the Court of Appeal, being the intermediary bench between the lower courts and the apex court in the country.
Given the shortage of Judges and legal scholarship in the Court of Appeal, it is proper and fitting that suitably qualified lawyers be appointed to fill up the vacancies in the Court of Appeal. Already some lawyers had submitted their applications for consideration for appointment.
From the foregoing, it is clear that the appointment of lawyers to the apex court is a general practice across the world. Therefore, the President of the Appeal Court is justified in inviting lawyers to apply to become Court of Appeal Justices. Paradoxically, since 2017, no lawyer has been appointed either to the Supreme or the Court of Appeal despite the fact that the Nigerian Bar Association has consistently been recommending senior lawyers for consideration for such appointment.
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