Hon. Justice
Babs Kuewunmi of the Federal High Court Lagos, has just delivered a Judgment in
FHC/L/CS/1379/2017, the certified true copy (CTC) of which is attached in the
link below that the consent of the Nigerian Bar Association is not required,
not being a condition precedent under the 1999 Constitution of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, to register an association of Lawyers.
The lawsuit was
filed by Olumide Babalola ESQ against CAC when the Applicant approached CAC to register his association of “Consumer Rights Lawyers Association”, praying the
following reliefs:-
1.
That the Respondent’s Notice of Denial dated 2017-09-08
particularly as it pertains to consent of the Nigerian Bar Association, is
illegal, unconstitutional, and violates the Applicant’s fundamental right to
peaceful assembly and association as guaranteed by section 40 of the
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended.
2.
A DECLARATION that the consent of the Nigerian Bar
Association (NBA) is not a constitutional condition precedent to the formation
of an association of specialist lawyers in Nigeria.
3.
A PERPETUAL INJUNCTION restraining the Respondent, its
agents, officers, partners, employees and/or representatives from further requirement
to seek and obtain the consent of NBA before his association can be registered.
His Lordship
granted the reliefs.
You voted for
them as President of Nigerian Bar Association, they get into office upon being
inaugurated, expropriate NBA for parochial harangue and take NBA as a platform to abuse
provisions of LPA against Chapter IV Rights in the 1999 Constitution. Hitherto CAC requested
NBA's consent as a policy which may have impeded Lawyers
from expressing themselves in identifiable parallel associations.
ALL
LAWYERS ALL IN ONE NBA united as an association is professionally tidy
though but it's the crass abuse that was addressed for checks &
balances.
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