Fiduciary duty of legal practitioners

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  Judgment date

  4 December 2009

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• CHARLES OKIKE V. THE LEGAL PRACTITIONERS DISCIPLINARY COMMIT (2005)→

  Court

  Supreme Court of Nigeria

  Judgment date

  1 April 2005

  A summary of the Supreme Court ruling in Charles Okike v. LPDC regarding the jurisdiction to appeal decisions from the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Commit.

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