5-855: The Nigerian Bar Association ( NBA ) is a non-profit, umbrella professional association of lawyers admitted to the Bar by the Council of Legal Education in Nigeria . It is engaged in the promotion and protection of human rights, the rule of law and good governance. The NBA has an observer status with the African Commission on Human and People's Rights , and a working partnership with many national and international non-governmental organizations concerned with similar goals in Nigeria and in Africa. The NBA
10-672: Is Afam Osigwe, SAN and the General Secretary is Dr. Mobolaji Ojibara. Council of Legal Education The Council of Legal Education ( CLE ) was an English supervisory body established by the four Inns of Court to regulate and improve the legal education of barristers within England and Wales. The council was established in 1852 by the Inns of Court and originally consisted of eight members led by Richard Bethell , with two members coming from each Inn. The Council supervised
15-502: Is made up of 129 branches, three professional sections, two specialized institutes, and six practice-cadre forums. Its National Secretariat is managed from Abuja . Its organizational structure comprises a National Executive Council, a National Officers/Management Board, sections, forums, committees, working groups and a National Secretariat with 54 staff as at June 2024. The president of the Nigerian Bar Association
20-699: The Bar in 1967 pushed the Council into being a subdivision of that Senate rather than an independent organisation, and representatives of the Bar Council were added to the CLE. In 1997 the Council ceased to exist, transferring its assets to the Inns of Court School of Law , its educational and training functions to the Inns of Court and Bar Educational Trust and its regulatory functions to the General Council of
25-456: The education of students at the Inns of Court, and initially established five professorships. Professors would lecture students at the Inns, who were required to attend a certain number of lectures to be called to the Bar . In 1872 membership of the council was expanded to twenty and mandatory examinations for the call to the Bar were introduced. The creation of the Senate of the Inns of Court and
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