Monday, 30 September 2024, was momentous for our practice as our Founder and Lead Counsel, Dr. Charles A. Adeogun-Phillips, SAN, was conferred with the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria by the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee of the Nigerian Bar. The conferment was in recognition of his contributions to the law and the...
– Ishaq Obashola Apalando, Esq A free zone is a geographical area within a country where tax laws and other business regulations are either totally or partially exempted from application. It is also known as a free trade zone (FTZ), a special economic zone (SEZ), an export processing zone (EPZ) etc. The reason free...
– Ishaq Obashola Apalando, Esq On 11 July 2024, the Supreme Court of Nigeria gave a landmark decision in a suit between the Federal Government (FG) and the 36 State Governments. The suit, AGF v AG Abia & 35 Ors (No. SC/CV/343/2024, reported (2024) LPELR-62576(SC)), bordered on the method of paying the country’s 768...
In Nigeria, a lawyer owes her client a duty of confidentiality, also known as legal professional privilege. The legal framework for legal professional privilege in Nigeria remained undisturbed until 3 June 2011, when the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act of 2011 (MLA 2011) came into force. On 14 June 2017, in the case of Central...