National Industrial Court of Nigeria asked to stop 2026 SAN conferment exercise

An relation of Nigerian non-litigation lawyers has asked the National Industrial Court of Nigeria to halt the 2026 Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, conferment exercise.

The suit is the latest improvement successful a ineligible conflict betwixt the non-litigation lawyers, nether the umbrella Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, and the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and its Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, LPPC, implicit ALDRAP’s instauration of the Blue Silks fertile arsenic an alternate to the SAN title.

ALDRAP and its Executive Director, Dr Tonye Clinton Jaja, had asked the Abuja Federal High Court to halt the NBA and the LPPC from interfering successful the conferment of the Blue Silks fertile – conceived arsenic an alternate to the SAN fertile for non-litigation lawyers. ALDRAP subsequently approached the Court of Appeal aft the Abuja Federal High Court, presided by Justice James Omotosho, granted an bid of perpetual injunction restraining it from conferring the Blue Silks rank.

In the suit astatine the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, dated June 25, 2026 and filed connected the aforesaid date, ALDRAP argued that the merchandise a database of 89 applicants shortlisted for conferment of the SAN fertile by the LPPC was sub-judice arsenic the substance relates to pending litigation.

The Chairman, Legal Practitioners Privileges Co...