Legal Practitioners (82)
DUTY OF COUNSEL - Duty of Counsel as a minister in the temple of justice and an officer of the Court
HELD:
"It is rather unfortunate that, in this time and age, people with obviously dubious and unscrupulous claims still find lawyers willing to be used as tools to do their bidding and desire to arm-twist the justice system into supporting such claims.
HELD:
"Let me sieze this occasion to comment on one practice that is now gaining ground among legal practitioners.
HELD:
"The right to fair hearing is both a natural right and a constitutional right.
HELD:
"The unfettered right of a litigant to engage counsel of his choice is firmly entrenched in Section 36 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended.
HELD:
"By the provisions of Section 36 of the Constitution of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) in the determination of his civil rights and obligations, a citizen has the fundamental right to a Counsel of his own choice.
HELD:
"Perhaps, I should remind learned Counsel of their duty to maintain an unreserved respect for the Court.
HELD:
"It is settled law that every person in Nigeria has a right to instruct or brief any legal practitioner of his choice to defend him before any Court and can also change him at any state of the proceedings without giving any reason for so doing.
HELD:
"The further counter-affidavit deposed to by Chukwu Benignus Ndubuisi was not filed by him, but by Paul I. Okoh, the counsel who filed all the processes in opposition to this application on behalf of the Respondent.