LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT

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LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT

CHAPTER L11 LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, L.F.N. 2004

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 

1.    Establishment of bar council. 

2.     Entitlement to practise.

3.     Establishment of Body of Benchers.

4.     Call to the Bar.

5.     Conferment etc. of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria.

6.     Privilege of Law Officers.

7.     Enrolment.

8.     Right of audience, and precedence.

9.     Liability for negligence.

10.    Establishment of disciplinary committee.

11.    Establishment of disciplinary committee.

12.    Establishment of Appeal Committee of the Body of Benchers, etc.

13.    Disciplinary jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

14.    Restoration of names to roll, etc.

15.    Scales of charges.

16.    Recovery of charges, etc.

17.    Applications for taxation of charges.

18.    Taxation.

19.    Supplementary provisions as to remuneration.

20.    Accounts and records for clients’ moneys.

21.    Special provisions as to client accounts with banks.

22.     Offences.

23.    Miscellaneous supplementary provisions.

24.    Interpretation.

25.    Short title.

First Schedule – Table of Precedence 

Second Schedule – Supplementary Provisions as to the disciplinary committee

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LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT

An Act to re-enact the Legal Practitioners Act 1962 as amended up to date.

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[COMMENCEMENT]                              (16^th May 1975)

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1.   Establishment of bar council.

(1)    There shall be a body to be known as the General Council of the Bar (hereinafter in this Act referred to as “the Bar Council”) which shall be charged with the general management of the affairs of the Nigerian Bar Association (subject to any limitations for the time being provided by the constitution of the association) and with any functions conferred on the council by this Act or that constitution.

(2)     The Bar Council shall consist of- 

(a)     the Attorney-General of the Federation, who shall be the president of the council;

(b)     the Attorneys-General of the States; and 

(c)     twenty members of the association.

(3)     The persons mentioned in paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of this section shall– 

(a)    be elected to serve on the Bar Council at elections in which all members of the association are entitled to vote in such manner as may be provided by the constitution of the association; and

(b)    hold office for such period as may be determined by or under that constitution, and not less than seven of those persons shall be legal practitioners of not less than ten years standing. 

(4)  The quorum of the Bar Council shall be eight, and the council may make standing orders regulating the procedure of the council and, subject to the provisions of any such orders, may regulate its own proceedings; and no proceedings of the council shall be invalidated by any vacancy in the membership of the council, or by the fact that any person took part in the proceedings who was not entitled to do so.

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