Section 2 Legal Practitioners Act

Section 2 of Legal Practitioners Act 1975 is about Entitlement to practise. It is under ‘Practice as a Legal Practitioner‘ of the sections of the Act. It provides as follows:

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, a person shall be entitled to practise as a
barrister and solicitor if, and only if, his name is on the roll.

(2) If-
(a) an application under this subsection is made to the Chief Justice by or on
behalf of any person appearing to him to be entitled to practise as an advocate
in any country where the legal system is similar to that of Nigeria; and

(b) the Chief Justice is of the opinion that it is expedient to permit that person to
practise as a barrister for the purposes of proceedings described in the application, the Chief Justice may by warrant under his hand authorise that
person, on payment to the registrar of such fee not exceeding fifty naira as
may be specified in the warrant, to practise as a barrister for the purposes of
those proceedings and of any appeal brought in connection with those
proceedings.

(3) A person for the time being exercising the functions of any of the following
offices, that is to say–
(a) the office of the Attorney-General, Solicitor-General or Director of Public
Prosecutions of the Federation or of a State;

(b) such offices in the civil service of the Federation or of a State as the
Attorney-General of the Federation or of the State, as the case may be, may
by order specify, shall be entitled to practise as a barrister and solicitor for the
purposes of that office.

(4) A certificate signed by, or by a person authorised either generally or specially in that behalf by, any of the persons mentioned in paragraph (a) of the last foregoing subsection stating that a particular individual is exercising the functions of a particular office shall, without prejudice to any other means of proof, be conclusive proof for the purposes of that subsection that the individual is
exercising the functions of that office; and any document purporting to be a
certificate under this subsection shall be admitted in evidence and, until the
contrary is proved, be deemed to be such a certificate.