Section 1 Legal Practitioners Act

Section 1 of Legal Practitioners Act 1975 is about Establishment of bar council. It is under ‘The General Council of the Bar‘ of the sections of the Act. It provides as follows:

(1) There shall be a body to be known as the General Council of the Bar (hereinafter in this Act referred to as “the Bar Council”) which shall be charged
with the general management of the affairs of the Nigerian Bar Association
(subject to any limitations for the time being provided by the constitution of the
association) and with any functions conferred on the council by this Act or that
constitution.

(2) The Bar Council shall consist of-

(a) the Attorney-General of the Federation, who shall be the president of the
council;
(b) the Attorneys-General of the States; and
(c) twenty members of the association.

(3) The persons mentioned in paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of this section shall–

(a) be elected to serve on the Bar Council at elections in which all members of
the association are entitled to vote in such manner as may be provided by the
constitution of the association; and

(b) hold office for such period as may be determined by or under that
constitution, and not less than seven of those persons shall be legal
practitioners of not less than ten years standing.

(4) The quorum of the Bar Council shall be eight, and the council may make
standing orders regulating the procedure of the council and, subject to the
provisions of any such orders, may regulate its own proceedings; and no proceedings of the council shall be invalidated by any vacancy in the membership
of the council, or by the fact that any person took part in the proceedings who was not entitled to do so.