The NBA’s Self-Admission of Not Being A Juristic Person and How the Supreme Court was Not Properly Guided in Wome Moses Esq. V NBA

THE NBA’S SELF-ADMISSION OF NOT BEING A JURISTIC PERSON AND HOW THE SUPREME COURT WAS NOT PROPERLY GUIDED IN WOME MOSES ESQ. V NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION (2019) LPELR-46918 (SC)

Please pardon my inelegant title, perhaps I was rattled by my recent discovery that the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is surprisingly not a juristic person according to the body itself and the Supreme Court of Nigeria as held in the recent decision in Wome Moses, Esq. v Nigerian Bar Association (2019) LPELR – 46918 (SC).
Lest I am accused of lifting the court’s ratio in isolation of the facts and circumstances of the case and also for the purpose of clarity as well as undiluted understanding of the court’s stand point, I shall set out the non-contentious facts as follows:

The Appellant, a legal practitioner practicing in Port Harcourt was briefed by a member of a family to represent him in a case involving family land. The Appellant’s client lost at the High Court and he appealed but while the appeal was pending, the Appellant (Wome Moses) allegedly partitioned the family land and sold them by representing himself as the family lawyer without valid authority.
The disgruntled family petitioned the NBA Port Harcourt branch which culminated in a referral to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee which ultimately found the Appellant guilty and consequently recommended the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court to strike his name off the roll of legal practitioners.

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