Court orders CAC to register new lawyers body to rival NBA

By segun On Jan 23, 2024

The Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, has been ordered by the Federal High Court in Abuja to register a new association for lawyers in the country.

The CAC has been dragged to court by some lawyers, Bolaji Ayorinde, Mela Nunge, Garba Gajam, Emeka Ichoku, Chioma Ferguson, and Tejumola Adigun, for failing to register their association as a legal practitioners’ body in Nigeria.

The plaintiffs had contended that the names being considered for registration as a body of lawyers are dissimilar to the Nigerian Bar Association and unlikely to mislead the public.

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The names submitted by plaintiffs are “Nigerian Law Society,” “Nigerian Bar Society,” “Nigerian Lawyers’ Society” and “Association of Legal Practitioners of Nigeria.”

However, in a judgment delivered on December 15, 2023, a copy of which was seen by our correspondent on Tuesday, Justice Gladys Olotu ordered the CAC to register any of the proposed names submitted by the plaintiffs.

Justice Olotu ordered the CAC: “To approve for registration and thereafter register any of the proposed names submitted to it on behalf of the plaintiffs, being: The Nigerian Law Society,” “Nigerian Bar Society,” “Nigerian Lawyers’ Society” and “The Association of Legal Practitioners of Nigeria” and issue a certificate of registration to that effect.”

She added that this in line with the right to peaceful assembly and association, guaranteed under Section 40 of the Constitution, Article 10 of the ACHPR, and Article 20 of the UDHR cover the kind of association the plaintiffs plan to register.

Court orders CAC to register new lawyers body to rival NBA

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