Judicial Reform: Body of Benchers cracks down on charge-and-bail lawyers

“The Body of Benchers has observed, from the committee set up to address this issue of the astronomical increase in the numbers of those wishing to be admitted to the Bar as lawyers, and from information gathered particularly from the Nigerian Law School, that the greatest challenge stems from the deliberate act of the faculties of law of some of the universities accredited to graduate law students, exceeding the maximum quota of students allocated to the university that can be admitted to read law.“For the legal profession, the Body of Benchers and the Council of Legal Education are guided by the needs for legal services in the country, which form the basis of the quota allocated to universities, including the facilities on ground and the ability of the faculty of law to produce law students of the highest standard to be called to the Bar by the Body of Benchers,” the Chairman of the BoB, HRM Akpomuje, SAN, added.

The body is responsible for the call of graduates of law school to the Nigerian Bar as well as the regulation of the legal profession in Nigeria.