By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
The Body of Benchers (BoB), the apex regulatory body for the legal profession, has vowed to wield the big stick to check what it termed the embarrassing conduct of charge-and-bail lawyers.
The body is responsible for the call of graduates of law school to the Nigerian Bar as well as the regulation of the legal profession in Nigeria.
The BoB expressed concerns about the quality and standard of those admitted to practice law in the country, at a three-day Call to Bar ceremony that saw the induction of 6,010 new wigs.
The occasion, held in Abuja from July 7 to 10, further swelled the population of lawyers in the country, which was previously estimated at about 250,000 practitioners.
