AMINA ADAMU AUGIE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The Respondent, engaged by the Appellants to handle various cases they had in Court. However, by a letter dated 26th July 2006, the Respondent was informed - "We have deemed it necessary to debrief you and your Chambers of all the cases that you are handling for us. For over 2 (two) years we have been going to Court and none of the cases Viz: - - -has come to a successful conclusion. We shall be informing you who the new lawyers would be thanks for your co-operation".
In his reply dated 3rd August 2006, the Respondent withdrew his services, and after putting "the records straight", concluded thus -
"..We hereby condemn vehemently your crude and malicious innuendo alluding to our Chambers as non-result oriented. It only takes a greedy man and an ingrate to conclude that we did not produce any result in the cases - - Result means different things to different people. A reasonable man would know that we have produced results in…