The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee LPPC has suspended Professor Mike Ozekhome, SAN, from using the Senior Advocate of Nigeria rank.
Ozekhome, a constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, was sanctioned at the LPPC’s 173rd General Meeting, a statement said.
In the statement signed by the LPPC Secretary, Mr. Kabiru Eniola Akanbi, the committee said the suspension was carried out under Paragraph 26(6) of the Guidelines for the Conferment of the SAN Rank and matters relating to the rank.
Akanbi further stated that the action is pending the final determination of the disciplinary proceedings presently before the Disciplinary and Ethics Sub-Committee of the LPPC.
The suspension of Ozekhome is intended to safeguard the integrity, dignity and prestige of the SAN rank.
The LPPC has barred Ozekhome from parading himself as, or otherwise holding himself out to be, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria pending the final determination of the disciplinary proceedings, the statement said.
It added:“The LPPC remains committed to upholding the highest standards of professional ethics, integrity and discipline within the legal profession and to ensuring that the rank of SAN continues to command public confidence and respect.”