Counsel’s duty to act within the law

Related decisions

• DZEVER V. NWAEKPE (2021)→

  Court

  Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee of the Body of Benchers, sitting at Abuja

  Judgment date

  8 September 2021

  Summary of Dzever v. Nwaekpe (2021), where the LPDC suspended a lawyer for helping frustrate judgment execution through unlawful self-help.

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