Legal Practitioners Act

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT

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

Legal Practitioners Act

CITATION

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

COMMENCEMENT

16sup>th May 1975

1. (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.