Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners, 2023 🇳🇬

Nigeria 4 Citing Cases

Legal Practitioners Act, 1962

S.I. 32

Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners, 2023

Published on 6 June 2023
Assented to on 15 May 2023
Commenced on 1 January 2024
[This is the version of this document from 6 June 2023.]

In exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 12(4) of the Legal Practitioners Act Cap. L 11 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 as amended, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, the General Council of the Bar ("Bar Council") makes the following Rules -

Chapter I
CONDUCT

Part 1 – PRACTICE AS A LEGAL PRACTITIONER

1. General responsibility of a lawyer.

A lawyer shall uphold and observe the rule of law, promote, and foster the course of justice, maintain a high standard of professional conduct, and shall not engage in any conduct which is unbecoming of a legal practitioner.

2. Duty as to admission into the legal profession.

A lawyer shall not knowingly do any act or make any omission or engage in any conduct designed to lead to the admission into…

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