A lawyer must pay his or her fees annually by 31 January each year to be entitled to be heard in a Nigerian court. Some judges help enforce the payment of training fees, but that`s still a concern for the NBA, though the NBA is still trying to figure out terms of enforcement. Since 12 December 1984, civil servant lawyers can no longer practise in a private capacity, as provided for in § 1 Regulated and other professions (prohibition on practising in a private capacity / decree of 1984). The lawyer earns his living by representing litigants in court. It also gives legal advice on matters referred to it by lawyers. A lawyer is appointed by the lawyer in one case, he has no direct contact with the litigant belonging to a law firm for a period of at least 4 years. The degree of studies was WASSCE. During the article as a lawyer, you must pass Part I of lawyers for 1.2 years and 2.2 years for Part II of lawyers. The body responsible for training to organize the bar examination is the Law Society.
If someone has a law degree, they are exempt from Part 1 lawyers and will study for Part II lawyers, which is 2 years. The conference for lawyers did not become mandatory until 1922, because their work was more important than that of the lawyer. Such a solicitor may be an independent solicitor or a person named in the articles of association as a director or authorised secretary of the company to be incorporated. The affidavit serves as evidence of compliance with the requirement to incorporate and must be submitted prior to the formation of a corporation. (11) Secretary of the Council, who is a lawyer appointed by the National Council of Justice on the recommendation of the Federal Judicial Service Commission See Uzodinma v. COP (1982) 1 NCR 27, until recently, legal practitioners were not entitled to an R of representative and hearing before a customary or regional court. Prior to colonization in many parts of Africa, traditional society had its own judicial system that is responsible for the administration of justice in that society. Nevertheless, the entry of European economic actors into society has led to the development of a judicial system that has laid the foundations for the future of contemporary jurisprudence in African societies. For example, exploited in the 19th century.
Century before the annexation of Lagos in 1861, the various societies that today make up Nigeria and other African countries, their own political system with their own method of administration of justice. There are traditional “courts” in which traditional rules are applied against the parties, whether indigenous or foreign. In Igbo country, for example, the company had no central management. Leadership has been distributed among community members who act within the Council to exercise executive, legislative and judicial powers. The system of judicial administration in pre-colonial Hausa politics in northern Nigeria was the closest to the modern judicial system we have today in different parts of the world. There was a judicial system in which the subordinate head or alkaline rulers ran the court in different districts or areas, and the emir had appellate and trial jurisdiction in very serious cases. The administration of justice in traditional society was largely based on unwritten customary rules interpreted by institutions, such as exclusion was very common as well as corporal punishment. In some cases, influential people were allowed to punish those who insulted them, and this was the case in Yoruba country. The legal system of many of this society applied to both native and non-native people, although the latter did not understand the context of the rules, with the increasing growth of European trade in the region, British traders became involved in the politics of the region and the administration of justice.
A lawyer who is a litigator and who represents himself does not lose his status because he is a litigant in civil matters, the lawyer can be dressed, but he will talk about the bar. In criminal cases, he is not dressed and cannot speak from the bar, but in the dock if he is charged. It should be noted that a lawyer enjoys immunity in the event of litigation and is also immune from any testimony he gives in litigation before a court. By 1943, a universal judicial system had been introduced nationwide, ending the establishment of magistrates` courts in all parts of the country and a Nigeria-wide Supreme Court for the entire country.