There are a lot of persons pretending to be Lawyers in Nigeria. These are the kind of persons who prepare fake legal documents and file incompetent court processes. This edition of Akintunde Esan's Legal Illumination is focused on protecting those seeking for Nigerian Lawyers online.
A Lawyer in Nigeria is a person called to the Nigerian Bar and enrolled at the Supreme Court of Nigeria as a person qualified to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
It is a criminal offence for anyone to parade him or her self as Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria,when such a person is not. Likewise, it is a criminal offence to knowingly engage the services of a fake Lawyer.
Above all, any legal document prepared and signed by a fake Lawyer is equally a fake legal document and a fake legal document is a worthless legal document, which cannot be the basis for any legal transaction.
If you are searching for a Lawyer online, once you have found one, before making any financial commitment, before handing over sensitive documents and before disclosing sensitive facts and data about your self, marriage, business or property to such a Lawyer, you are advised to first verify whether such a person is a genuine or fake Lawyer.
Kudos to the Nigerian Bar Association in conjunction with the Supreme Court of Nigeria, you can now verify online whether your Lawyer is a genuine or fake Lawyer by simply taking the following three steps:
Step 1: Click on this link https://nigerianbar.org.ng/find-lawyer or copy and paste it in your browser.
Step 2: Enter the name of the Lawyer in the Search Box as seen below:
Step 3: Click on "SEARCH" on the Search Box and the search result for the name entered will automatically pop-up a list of names containing the full name entered for the search.
The above search result is the search result for Akintunde Esan.
HOW TO VERIFY WHETHER A LAWYER IS GENUINE OR FAKE IN NIGERIA is a legal illumination of AKINTUNDE ESAN known as The LEGAL ADVISER ONLINE. Akintunde Esan is the Managing Partner & Principal Consultant @ ASE OLODUMARE CHAMBERS (Legal Practitioners/Consultants & Chartered Mediators).
I notice that when I search for a name, other names that have one of the names being searched pop up. Personally I honestly think it's not good enough. Someone can literally go online and search for a name and impersonate the lawyer. I don't think other names should pop up, because it's like presening a database of names of lawyers to a criminally minded person to make a choice, and impersonate.
ReplyDeleteWhen you search for a name to verify, other names that contain one of the names inputted pops up, that shouldn't be. This system is setup in such a way that it actually presents the criminally minded a database of names of lawyers to impersonate.
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