Senior Lawyer Beluolisa Nwofor Loses SAN Rank

The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC), has withdrawn the rank of Senior of Advocate of Nigeria from Beluolisa E. Nwofor for allegedly conducting himself in a manner, unbecoming of the holder of the esteemed rank.

The statement withdrawing the rank was signed by the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court and Secretary of the LPPC, Mr. Ahmed Gamo Saleh.

Saleh said the decision to withdraw the rank from Nwofor was taken at the committee’s 126th general meeting held on yesterday, the 22nd June, 2017 acting on a petition filed against the senior lawyer by the Court of Appeal.

The committee however, did not give details of the alleged misconduct for which Nwofor was punished.

It said that it took the decision after considering “extensively the complaint filed by the Court of Appeal against Nwofor, with his response to same and all material facts.”

 

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