Ejiofor calls for stronger checks on lawyers’ professional standards

By Nwabueze Okonkwo

ONITSHA — Human rights lawyer Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor, KSC, has called connected the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the Council of Legal Education (CLE) to fortify oversight and disciplinary mechanisms successful bid to sphere the integrity of the ineligible profession.

In a connection issued connected Saturday, Ejiofor stressed that admittance to the Bar should bespeak some world competence and dependable character. He warned that weakening those standards risks undermining nationalist assurance successful the assemblage and the justness system.

Ejiofor said helium has observed instances of behaviour among immoderate practitioners that autumn abbreviated of nonrecreational expectations and noted the summation successful petitions earlier the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC). He urged applicable bodies to reappraisal and, wherever necessary, tighten procedures utilized to measure aspirants and to enforce existing codes of conduct.

“The task of producing competent and disciplined lawyers indispensable ne'er beryllium compromised,” helium said, adding that some world excellence and integrity are indispensable for those admitted to ineligible practice.

Ejiofor recommended that the NBA, CLE and different stakeholders reassert their regulatory roles, reenforce grooming and ethical standards during nonrecreational education, and guarantee disciplinary processes are effectual and transparent. He said restoring rigorous exertion of the “fit and proper” modular volition assistance support the profession’s estimation and service aboriginal generations of lawyers.

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