Malami inaugurates committee on

Justice Minister Abubakar Malami on Monday, inaugurated the Legal Practitioner’s Remuneration Committee to look into the remuneration of lawyers in the country.

Malami, while inaugurating the reconstituted committee in Abuja said, finding a reasonable remuneration for legal services in Nigeria has been an issue of great controversy for legal practitioners.

”It has and is still eliciting heated intellectual and nonintellectual debates by various countervailing interests.

“Over the years, finding a reasonable remuneration for legal services has been an issue of great controversy for legal professionals. It has, and is still eliciting heated intellectual and non-intellectual debates by various countervailing interests.

“Some have argued that a lawyer’s fees cannot, and should not be pigeonholed to a scale of charges due to the unique nature of the legal profession: while others who canvass for its continued existence say it has created order and certainty in

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the expected remuneration for legal services’’.

He said the Legal Practitioners Act established the Legal Practitioners Remuneration Committee to amongst other things, regulate and standardise the remuneration of legal practitioners in Nigeria.

“By virtue of Section 15 of the Legal Practitioners Act, the committee is made up of Attorneys-General of the Federation and the States, NBA President and three other members of NBA.

“It is pursuant to the above statutory provisions, that the committee enacted the Legal Practitioners Remuneration for Legal Documentation and Other Land Matters Order in 1991.

“This Order created three classes of scales that can be used in charging, depending on the nature of legal services rendered’’.

The AGF noted that in view of the current national and economic realities, it was clear that the scale of charges hitherto established were long overdue for review.

time for the NLC and the workers to start settling their issues right behind closed doors and to ensure that when issues are resolved, they are resolved properly”.

Earlier, the Managing Director of FAAN, Rabiu Hamisu Yadudu, explained that the conference was aimed at furthering partnership and sustainability, as part of efforts to mitigate challenges hampering the aviation sector.

According to Yadudu, the event would serve as a forum to highlight available investment opportunities in the industry, to attract prospective investors, who are desirous of making great returns on their investments.

L-R: Kaduna State People Democratic Party Chairman, Hassan Hyet, State Secretary, Ibrahim Wuzono, and the Party Treasurer, Kasimu Lawal, during the Press briefing over Alledge Suspention of Senator Ahmed Makarfi held at Party Sectariat, yesterday in Kaduna.