NBA, AGF, benchers urged to resolve LPDC appeal uncertainty
- ✦Nigerian Bar Association and Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee and the subsequent Federal High Court judgment in Gadzama v Body of Benchers and Others.
- A legal practitioner, Emmanuel Umohinyang, has called on the Nigerian Bar Association, the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Body of Benchers to urgently establish a constitutionally valid appellate mechanism for challenging decisions of the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee.
- Umohinyang warned that the absence of a clearly defined appeal process could undermine the rights of legal practitioners, create uncertainty in disciplinary proceedings and erode public confidence in the regulation of the legal profession.
- Nigerian Bar Association and Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee and the subsequent Federal High Court judgment in Gadzama v Body of Benchers and Others.
A lawyer has urged the NBA, AGF, and Body of Benchers to resolve the uncertainty over the appeal process for Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee dec
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A legal practitioner, Emmanuel Umohinyang, has called on the Nigerian Bar Association, the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Body of Benchers to urgently establish a constitutionally valid appellate mechanism for challenging decisions of the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee.
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In separate letters dated October 22, 2026, to the leadership of the three institutions, the Head of Chambers at Emmanuel Umohinyang Chambers sought coordinated constitutional, legislative and institutional reforms following the Supreme Court’s decision in Ben Mene-Ejegi v.
