Time for NBA to appeal judgment affirming Blue Silks has elapsed – Nigerian Legal Society

The Nigerian Legal Society, NLS, has insisted that the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has mislaid the accidental to entreaty a judgement which approved the instauration of the Blue Silks fertile arsenic an alternate to the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, rubric for non-litigation lawyers.

The NBA had opposed the instauration of the Blue Silks fertile of Senior Counsel of Nigeria, describing the rubric arsenic illegal. The NBA, which confers the SAN rubric done its Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, LPPC, warned that Nigerian lawyers who instrumentality up the Blue Silks fertile hazard terrible sanctions.

However, providing an update connected the ineligible conflict surrounding the instauration of the Blue Silks rank, Executive Secretary of the NLS, Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja, SCN, said the judgement delivered by Justice Mohammed Umar Garba of the Abuja Federal High Court connected 27th January 2026 has not been challenged and arsenic specified remains successful force.

According to him, the judgment, delivered successful a suit numbered FHC/CS/1238/2025, gave judicial blessings to the Blue Silks fertile of Senior Counsel of Nigeria, SCN.

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