Introduction The body of benchers conducts the yearly call to bar of new wigs into the Legal Profession. As of 2018, 4,779 numbers of persons were called to the Nigerian bar. According to Prof. Gbolahan Elias (SAN) more than 4,000 Lawyers are called to the bar yearly when the nation is already having more than […]

By Sam Omotoso Esq, ACIArb. INTRODUCTION Any member of the legal profession called to the Nigerian bar post-2007 will be all too familiar with the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners 2007, hereinafter referred to as  (the “RPC 2007“). This is because it is the most recent iteration of the codified rules of ethics […]