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December 19, 2006
Supreme Court out with new guidelines for becoming SAN
NEW guidelines have been approved for the conferment of the title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) on legal practitioners by the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee.
Lanre Adewole, Abuja - 19.12.2006
The Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Mr. Danlami Zenchi, who briefed journalists on Monday on the development, said applicants for the title would start paying a mandatory non-refundable fee of N200,000 for the application from 2007.
The application had before now been at no cost. Zenchi said the fee would be used by the conferring committee to travel around the country to authenticate the claims of applicants in their forms.
He added that the committee decided to take the cost of investigation off the Federal Government as it was the practice in the United Kingdom, where applicants for the title of Queen’s Counsel, an equivalent of SAN, pay about 2,000 pounds.
The Chief Registrar said the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) which had some of its senior members on the committee that fashioned out the new guidelines, received the guidelines with applause.
Though a part of the new guidelines was released to newsmen, some of the new criteria considered as confidential were kept back by Zenchi.
He added that there would be no waivers on the application fee, stating that those that had earlier applied for the 2007 award must pay the fee before their application could be considered.
Submission of applications, according to him, would end on March 31, 2007 after which the committee would commence its work.
Posted by Publisher at December 19, 2006 08:01 AM
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