04/08/2015
NOTICE TO ALL LEGAL PRACTITIONERS
04 August 2015
10:03
NOTICE TO ALL LEGAL PRACTITIONERS
Ref: Notice/003/07/15
NOTICE TO ALL LEGAL PRACTITIONERS
In the exercise of his powers to provide direction and leadership to the Association as well as its members, Augustine Alegeh SAN, the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, hereby directs as follows:
1. Any lawyer acting in his/her capacity as a legal practitioner, legal officer or adviser of any Government department or ministry, company, Association or any corporation, shall not prepare, issue, sign or file a legal document unless there is affixed on EVERY copy of such document the stamp approved by the Nigerian Bar Association, pursuant to Rule 10(1) of the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners, 2007.
2. Therefore EVERY copy of ‘legal documents’ including pleadings, affidavits, depositions, applications, instruments, agreements, deeds, letters, memoranda, reports, legal opinions, or any similar documents prepared, issued, signed or filed by a lawyer acting in his/her capacity as a legal practitioner, must have affixed on ALL copies of such documents the stamp approved by the Nigerian Bar Association.
3. Any legal practitioner who did not pay his/her practicing fees for 2015 as and when due (i.e. before April 1, 2015), can still do so till the 31st day of December, 2015.
4. Any lawyer who failed to pay his/her practicing fee for 2015 will not be issued with STAMP approved by the Nigerian Bar Association pursuant to Rule 10(1) of the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners, 2007.
Dated This 21st Day of July, 2015
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