Lagos Chief Judge Worried Over Conduct Of Some Lawyers In Court
The Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Kazeem Alogba, has expressed concern over the conduct of some of the lawyers while appearing in courts. He said their conduct is becoming worrisome.
Justice Alogba expressed his concern at a cocktail party organized as part of activities to mark the commencement of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL) annual conference. At the Ikeja High Court.
The Chief Judge said the conduct of the lawyers should be worrisome because some of their children who had also become lawyers are emulating them.
According to him, the legal profession is rated worldwide as the primus among all profession.
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He said there was an urgent need to nurture, promote and enrich the profession if lawyers want to continue enjoy their global rating.
“We need to bring the shine back to the legal profession.
“Whether anybody likes it or not, the legal profession is the primus amongst all professions anywhere in the world and so with that pride of place, we should earn it, we should maintain it, we should promote it and enrich it so that we would continue to justify the earnings.
“I want to call on all of us including my brother judges, and judges throughout the whole gamut of the judiciary right from federal to the lowest arm at the local level, we need to sit down and ask ourselves where we have gone wrong”, he said.
Alogba recalled the year 2020 #EndSARS nationwide protest against police brutality and said that the perpetrators of the incidents might have burnt down the courts as a result of the failed justice system in Nigeria.
