Health & Education
Gani queries Law School record on legal practice
By Vanguard
May 13, 2004, 09:10

LAGOS—EMINENT lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN), has asked the Nigerian Law School to withdraw, within seven days, a book authored by it, detailing dates legal practitioners were called to the bar from January 1963 to July 2003, because, according to him, the publication is full of factual errors and tragic misinformation capable of destroying the career of many legal practitioners in the country.

The controversial book is entitled “Nigerian Law School: Four decades of service to the legal profession”

In two separate letters to the Secretary to the Council of Legal Education and Director of Administration, Nigerian Law School, Abuja to push for the withdrawal of the book from circulation, Chief Fawehinmi argued that the publication which was full of errors from its foreword to its conclusion could be used by mischievous person or persons, against lawyers and even the Nigerian Law School in the future.
The lawyer, who listed an avalanche of errors contained in the book, wondered why a publication so riddled with factual absurdities, tragic misinformation and unpardonable errors could be commended by the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Muhammad Lawal Uwais, in glowing terms.

According to Chief Fawehinmi, in his first letter to the Nigerian Law School, dated May 7, this year, he said: “With feverish relish, I ran through the book. Disappointingly, I was awestruck by the avalanche of errors contained therein, particularly the second part of Part 4–– Call to the Bar List of Legal Practitioners: January 1963 to July 2003 from pages 205 to 469 ."


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