THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION: Whether the Nigerian Bar Association is a juristic person capable of suing and being sued in its name- WOME MOSES, ESQ v. NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION(2019) LPELR-46918(SC)
HELD:
"It should be noted that the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) is not a party to the action leading to this appeal. The respondent is simply the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), which by law is not a juristic person as it can neither sue nor be sued in a Court of law - see the case of Fawehinmi vs Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) (No 2) (1989) 2 NWLR (pt. 105) 558 at 595." WOME MOSES, ESQ v. NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION(2019) LPELR-46918(SC)Per ONNOGHEN, J.S.C. (P. 14, Paras. C-D)
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