Uphold Highest Standards Of Legal Practice, CJN Urges 57 New SANs

Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, connected Monday, told the 57 lawyers that person conscionable been conferred with the fertile of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) to uphold highest standards of ineligible practice.

While admistering the oath of bureau connected them, Kekere-Ekun urged the caller learned silk to uphold the regularisation of instrumentality and tally from thing that could stain their ineligible practice.

The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) had connected June 24 released names of 57 approved ineligible practitioners for elevation to the SAN status.

Speaking astatine the conferment ceremonial astatine the Supreme Court successful Abuja, which besides marked the commencement of the caller ineligible twelvemonth of the Supreme Court, Justice Kekere-Ekun told the caller SANs that their designation was a culmination of years of dedicated service, resolute committedness to the regularisation of law, and exceptional contributions to the ineligible profession.

“Your accomplishment is simply a almighty testament to the spot of quality spirit, the triumph of endowment implicit adversity, and the information that determination and professionalism cognize nary bounds,” the CJN said.

Justice Kekere-Ekun reminded the caller SANs that conferment of the fertile was a rigorous process, reflecting the precocious expectations placed upon those who carnivore the title, stressing that it signifies not lone nonrecreational excellence but besides a committedness to ethical behaviour and the upholding of the integrity of the ineligible profession.

Therefore, she urged them to uphold and internalise those principles, truthful arsenic to transportation the SAN presumption with the utmost dignity, grace, and consciousness of work it demands.

More so, the CJN cautioned the caller SANs that the fertile was a privilege, not a right.

“The privilege can, and so volition beryllium withdrawn successful due circumstances wherever it is abused,” the CJN warned.

Justice Kekere-Ekun assured that the Judiciary volition stay steadfast successful its law relation of dispensing justness reasonably and impartially.

“We volition proceed to enactment tirelessly to amended the ratio and effectiveness of the judicial process, uphold the regularisation of law, and support the rights and freedoms of each Nigerians.

“This juncture is not simply a solemnisation of clip passing, but a telephone to instrumentality stock, bespeak connected our challenges and achievements, and recommit ourselves to the ideals of justice, fairness, and work to the Nigerian people,” the CJN stated.