A retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Mary Odili, who is the Chairman of the legal body, while administering oath on the new lawyers, said they should use the profession as a sword to fight all forms of injustices in the country.
“As lawyers, you have the capacity to change the world whether you go into private practice, government service, to put up a business or whatever your heart leads you to do. “In your service as a legal practitioner, you must not forget to put into practice, the ethical and moral obligations of a lawyer that has been imbibed in you by being civil and ethical,” she added.More so, she warned that the BoB would not hesitate to wield the big stick against erring lawyers, adding that the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, has the power to derobe any lawyer found wanting on ethical standard.
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