Dear
Colleagues,
Yesterday I
read the OFOMATA’s case reported in (2017)
5 NWLR Part 1557 page 128 at 133 where J B Daudu said as a lawyer your name ought not to be prefixed with the title “Barrister”.
That you may
write after your name “Barrister-at-law”. Difference between half a dozen and
six. One of JB Daudu’s Lawyers compared
the learned profession with mechanics and carpenters. How to define sadism at
its lowest?
Is that what
they wish our learned colleagues whilst they seek elevation with a view not for
our common good but to keep our colleagues at the level of poor mechanics.
Please
update JB Daudu on millions of Nigerian clients who proudly write to their
Lawyers and refer to them as “Barristers” and introduce them as Barristers. Read this link below ref Barristers in
England and Wales to see that when some of those ‘elevated’ pick on Lady Barristers
and prefix to demean lawyers whose dignity and integrity they should otherwise
promote, they commit the most abominable form of professional misconduct.
We have
taken back our bar thanks to sound judgment and we will move away from
un-intelligent jurisprudence. Rather
than seek to espouse and expand the term Barrister, they diminish it. U. S
Attorneys are referred to and prefixed as “Attorney YOUR NAME”. In addition US Attorneys also use the suffix ESQ like
their Nigerian counterparts.
Best
CA
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