Revisiting Legal Professional Privilege in 2022 Nigeria

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...