Bar Leader and Co-Opted Executive Committee member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Lagos Branch, Mrs. Uchenna Ogunedo Akingbade was the cynosure of all eyes yesterday as she anchored the flagship session at the ongoing NBA Lagos Branch Annual Law Conference. The session, with the topic “Redefining Standards in a Disruptive Legal Landscape,” featured the Keynote...
NBA LAGOS BRANCH LAW WEEK 2025: A NOTE OF FELICITATION BY OKEY LEO OHAGBA, ESQ I write to convey my heartfelt felicitation to the Olabisi Makanjuola led EXCO, the Planning Committee and the entire members of Nigerian Bar Association Lagos Branch on this occasion of the Lagos Branch Annual Law Conference, 2025, aptly themed, REIMAGINING...
UCHENNA OGUNEDO AKINGBADE, COORDINATOR OF THE FLAGSHIP SESSION, WILL BE ATTENDING THE NBA LAGOS BRANCH ANNUAL LAW CONFERENCE. I am honoured to be attending the NBA Lagos Branch Conference as the coordinator of the Flagship Session. Having served on the Law Week Planning Committee for three consecutive years, it is a privilege to coordinate this...
BARROOM BATTLES AND THE BURDEN OF EXAMPLE: RETHINKING CIVILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE (A Reflection on the Unfortunate Exchange Between Mike Ozekhome and Adebayo Ojo) By Sylvester Udemezue 1. The Decline of Decorum in the Legal Profession: The Nigerian legal profession has long stood as a bastion of intellectual rigour, civil discourse, and constitutionalism....
NEWS RELEASE Setting the Records Straight: Visit of Honourable Justice Inyang Okoro, JSC CFR to Benin City Recent social media reports and insinuations surrounding the presence of a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in Benin City during the burial of the late Mrs. Caroline Uwaifo, mother of Mr. Hannibal Uwaifo, former President of...
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A solicitor who received leaked confidential documents from the opposing side is not entitled to appeal a ruling that he acted improperly, the Court of Appeal has found. Seamus Andrew argued in The Federal Republic of Nigeria v Process and Industrial Developments Ltd that he had been treated unfairly by a judge who accused him...
A district judge who raised his voice and spoke rudely to someone in court had been issued with formal advice for misconduct. A party to a case complained to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) that district judge Christopher Falvey had been ‘discourteous towards them and shouted at them during a hearing’. According to a...
NBA LAGOS BRANCH ELECTIONS – JUNE 30, 2025 Dear Esteemed Learned Silks, Seniors, and Colleagues, The Electoral Committee of the NBA Lagos Branch has published the Manifestos and Profiles of candidates for the 2025 Branch Elections, scheduled for June 30, 2025. My name is Abiye Tobiah Tam-George, a candidate for Chairman of the NBA Lagos...