LORD ONNOGHEN UNDERSCORES SUFFIX "ESQ' FOR FEMALE & MALE LAWYERS!

We made the observations repeatedly that it is archaic and outmoded,

when a female lawyer announces her appearance in court, to ask

as Nigerian Judges in habits - "Are you Miss or Mrs?" Infra-dig!

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Walter Onnoghen at the Supreme Court session directed that the use of  Miss/Mrs/Ms for female lawyers is doltish and must be discarded.

He urged female Lawyers to resist being compelled by Judges to disclose their Marital status while announcing their names in court or in other professional settings and legal writings.

Hon. Justice Onnoghen cautioned that the professional and proper suffix is ‘Esquire’. He also advised that in cases where more than one legal practitioner is appearing, without title there should be introductory appellation- Messrs for  females or male. And for one lawyer appearing it is ‘Esq’ female or male with of course SAN if he or she is appearing in a matter. This happened today at the Supreme Court.

 

Carol Ajie ESQ.,

LAWA Fellow 2009-2010 Georgetown University Law Center 600 New Jersey Avenue Washington DC 20001 Email: ca338@law.georgetown.edu GSM: +2348033041206

PMB's Letter to Senate Fights Shy of the Word "Acting President"

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/230721-buhari-names-osinbajo-coordinator-nations-affairs.html

Buhari names Osinbajo ‘coordinator’ of nation’s affairs

May 9, 2017Hassan Adebayo

President Muhammadu Buhari with Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo

President Muhammadu Buhari says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will “coordinate” the nation’s affairs while he is abroad for medical treatment.
A letter sent by the president to the Senate, notifying lawmakers of his trip, however raised questions Tuesday about Mr. Osinbajo’s powers after Mr. Buhari failed to address him as “acting president”.
Mr. Buhari left Nigeria Sunday night, shortly after receiving 82 Chibok girls who regained freedom after three years in Boko Haram captivity.
Since coming to power in May 2015, it is the fourth time Mr. Osinbajo would be acting on behalf of the president.
Mr. Buhari has won praises for promptly handing over power before embarking on each trip.
This time, the president said his stay in the United Kingdom would be determined by his doctors.
But his latest correspondence to the Senate, read by the Senate president, Bukola Saraki, was questioned by a Senator who argued that Mr. Osinbajo should have been designated “acting president”.
Mao Ohabunwa, a Peoples Democratic Party senator, representing Abia North, said it was not proper to name the vice president “coordinator” of the nation’s affairs.

He was however ruled out of order by Mr. Saraki, after the Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan, defended Mr. Buhari, citing Section 145 of the 1999 Constitution.
That section says, “Whenever the President transmits to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a written declaration that he is proceeding on vacation or that he is otherwise unable to discharge the functions of his office, until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary such functions shall be discharged by the Vice-President as Acting President.”

CHIBOK SCHOOLGIRLS: NOT NAMING VILLAINS?

Now you want to ask why is it easier for Buhari’s government  to release the names and photographs of innocent  Nigerian children abducted from their school years ago, victims of  grueling assault,  trafficked and forced into marriages  to filthy Boko Haram members yet we have not read  a single name of Boko Haram members whom FG  purportedly swapped particularly bearing in mind that BH  prisoners said to have been swapped were said to be in custody so their names ought to have been  recorded against their photos;  shouldn’t government name some gangsters?.  Who should government protect -

The Villains or  the Victims?

Concerned Citizen

Carol Ajie, LL.B(Hons) Benin; B.L(Lagos); MCIArb(UK); LL.M (Int’l Legal Studies) Georgetown D.C; LAWA Fellow GULC; VV Lead Fellow 2013-17 United Nations’ Empower Women Champion for Change 2016-2017; IBA Human Rights Working Group Africa Regional Officer 2014-2016

Private Legal Practitioner

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NOMINEES LAWYERED-UP!

Look down on those lines:

“every tom and harry” use prefix “Barrister’ says those men are “uncouth” to prefix their names as Barristers. 

A kick in the face of President Buhari he and his AGF. JB Daudu may write to them as PMB’s list of nominees often identify members of the legal profession thereat as such.

Continue reading and click two links:

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/buhari-sends-ocheni-hassan-senate-confirmation-ministerial-nominees/

Barrister James Ocholi’s name (Kogi) featured above from the presidency as a Barrister pure and simple.

Barrister Igini also and others including

Barrister Kasim Gana Geidam (Yobe) and listed below as Barristers on REC list by President Mohammed Buhari click:

http://theeagleonline.com.ng/buhari-nominates-27-recs-for-confirmation-full-list/

CONCLUSION

We have enrollment numbers and year of call for  all Barristers  of the Supreme Court of Nigeria male and female.  If you were not called to Bar and you mis- present yourself as a Barrister, the Criminal Justice system would be invoked. However if you were enrolled like other learned gentlemen whom you now derogatorily tag ‘toms and harries’, those who have language have language and those who don’t have it, are as uncouth as those learned gentlemen they ‘Tom-ize and Harry-nize.’

Best regards

CA

OFOMATA'S CASE AND USE OF THE PREFIX "BARRISTER"

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barristers_in_England_and_Wales

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

ORIGINALLY, THREE NOBLE PROFESSIONS

There are 3 noble professions LAW MEDICINE AND THE MILITARY

No medical doctor would address his or her  professional colleague by any other title but

 Dr Agnes Ameh or

Dr Gilbert Hassan

The military so proud, army Generals  are addressed as the General or Colonel even after retirement.

If you are a Lawyer  or Attorney and you are not proud of being a lawyer or Attorney and you think others  should be role models  as I read someone this morning, maybe you need to look again.