Apparently, Nigerian Lawyers don’t speak good English anymore and it
is so embarrassing that Justice Ishaq Bello, acting Chief Judge of the
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, is advocating for continuous
English education for them.
At the launch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) stamp and
affinity products on Wednesday, Bello said that it was becoming rather
irritating for lawyers to appear before a judge and continuously mix up
their tenses in trying to present their cases.
He observed that the declining standard of lawyers could be noticed
in the quality of legal practice, where a lawyer stands from the bar
saying “I didn’t did it” or “I saw them passes”.
He urged the leadership of the NBA to do more to further encourage
the continued education of lawyers, saying the trend was becoming quite
irritating.
“All lawyers must go through what is called Language Usage Course
(LUC); all lawyers must be exposed to the dynamics of global evolving
legal landscape,” he said.