SAMUEL C. OSEJI, J.C.A. (Delivering the leading Judgment): This appeal is against the ruling of Hon. Justice A. Obaseki of the Federal High Court Makurdi Division delivered on the 8th day of June 2010 wherein the learned Trial Judge granted the respondents application and restrained the appellants from further appearance on behalf of the First City Monument Bank in Suit No.FHC/CS/MKD/03/2010 and also ordered that all processes filed by the appellants be struck out and their clients directed to seek the services of another counsel.
A brief history of this case was that sometime in December 2009 the respondents with some other persons obtained the services of the 1st appellant (Mrs. Mary E. Onyeka) who is a private legal practitioner to write a letter of complaint on their behalf to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, zone 4, Makurdi against one Engr. Daniel Shobayo for criminal breach of trust. The sum of N30,000 was paid to the 1st appellant for her services. Subsequently, the …