In the Future Bar- No Life Bencher for Body of Benchers by Prof Ernest Ojukwu, SAN
Under the proposed Legal Professional Regulation Act “Life Benchers” will cease to exist but any person bearing the designation “life bencher” may bear the designation on honourary basis only. Except for ex-officio members, the tenure of membership of the Body of Benchers shall be three years renewable for only one more term of three years. The Body of Benchers will be a Committee of the Legal Profession Regulation Council of Nigeria. It will have only one function or responsibility that is the formal call to the Bar of persons seeking to become legal practitioners in Nigeria.
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The number of members of the BOB has been drastically reduced to about 55 persons comprising the following:
- The Chief Justice of Nigeria and 3 Justices of the Supreme Court;
- The President of the Court of Appeal and 2 Justices of the Court of Appeal;
- The Attorney General of the Federation;
- The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court;
- The Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja;
- six (6) Chief Judges of the States, one each from each of the six (6) geo-political zones in rotation in alphabetical order within the states of each of the geo-political zones from the date of commencement of this Bill;
- six (6) Attorneys General of the States to be nominated by the State Attorneys General Forum;
- the President of the Association;
- A non-ex-officio lay member nominated by the Appointment Panel;
- the Chairman of the Council of Legal Education;
- Thirty (30) legal practitioners elected from the various sections of the Association as well as the geopolitical zones; six (6) of whom shall be Senior Advocates of Nigeria elected by the Body of Senior Advocates of the Nigeria.
NBA shall create rules for election of its 30 representatives or such election shall be as stipulated in the Constitution of the Association.
The appointment of the members of the Body of Benchers shall be guided by the principles of integrity, selflessness, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.
There are some gaps in the draft bill.
There is no provision for the appointment of the Chairman of the BOB. Section 13(2) of the draft refers to none existent subsection (m) of Section 13(1). The correct subsection is (k).
The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker
By Prof Ernest Ojukwu, SAN (Chair of the Future State of the Legal Profession Subcommittee of the LPRRC)
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