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Following the conviction of Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy senate president, for organ trafficking in the United Kingdom, a debate has ensued regarding the sentence he will be handed. His wife, Beatrice, and Obinna Obeta, a doctor involved in the case, were also found guilty when the verdict was delivered on Thursday. The jury held that they conspired to bring the 21-year-old at the centre of the matter to London to exploit him for his kidney. The verdict is the first of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 of the UK. The presiding judge has fixed May 5 to…

The court of appeal sitting in Abuja has reinstated Ademola Adeleke as the governor of Osun state. Delivering judgment in the appeal filed by Adeleke on Friday, a three-member panel of justices held that the election tribunal erred when it ruled that the 1st and 2nd respondents (Gboyega Oyetola and the All Progressives Congress) proved their allegation of over-voting. According to the panel of judges which issued its verdict on Friday, Adeleke is the duly elected governor of the state. The Osun governorship election tribunal, in January, held that Oyetola was able to prove that there was over-voting in some…

Hoodlums suspected to be political thugs have set ablaze a state High Court in Owutu-Edda, Afikpo South Local Government Area of Ebonyi. Mrs Oluchi Uduma, the Registrar of the court confirmed the incident to newsmen in Owutu-Edda on Tuesday. She said that the hoodlums invaded the court on Tuesday and set the building ablaze. Uduma explained that the court building, documents and other valuables were completely burnt. The Chairman of Afikpo South Local Government Area, Mr Chima Nkama also confirmed the incident, adding that the matter was reported to the police.

For the first time, English and Welsh solicitors and law firms will be able to register to practise in India on a permanent basis, under new rules published by the Bar Council of India in March 2023. This historic development follows decades of campaigning by the Law Society of England and Wales, most recently through a visit to India by president Lubna Shuja and our international team last week to discuss these matters with the Bar Council of India and the Ministry of Law and Justice. Law Society president Lubna Shuja said: “The Bar Council of India’s decision is a…

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed 16 constitutional amendment bills into law. Among the bills is the one which mandates the President-elect and governors-elect to submit the names of ministers or commissioners to the Senate and State House of Assembly within 60 days of taking the oath of office. The bills signed into law include financial independence for state houses of assemblies and state judiciary; bills seeking to remove railway, prison, electricity from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent list, among others. The assented bills will soon be published in the Official Gazette of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Your…

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released a chatbot called ChatGPT. To demonstrate the chatbot’s remarkable sophistication and potential implications, for both legal services and society more generally, most of this paper was generated in about an hour through prompts within ChatGPT. Only this abstract, the preface, the outline headers, the epilogue, and the prompts were written by a person. ChatGPT generated the rest of the text with no human editing. To be clear, the responses generated by ChatGPT were imperfect and at times problematic, and the use of an AI tool for law-related services raises a host of regulatory and…

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission on Friday lauded the robust and detailed decision of the coroner in the case of the Inquest into the death of Peju Ugboma who underwent a procedure at Premier Medical Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos. The PUNCH had reported that Ugboma died after she suffered internal bleeding following an elective hysterectomy operation for a fibroid condition in April 2021. The FCCPC opened an investigation upon the death of Mrs. Ugboma with the expectation that consumer protection issues associated with the duty and standard of care will be addressed. However, the full extent of that investigation only…

The Court of appeal has released the latest posting of justices for the year 2023. The new list signed by the President of the Court, Hon. Justice Dongban Mensem is to take immediate effect and Hon. Justices are expected to be at their new stations by the 14th March, 2023. See and Download the full list below:

The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has revoked the work permit, visa, and residence permit of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Seplat Energy PLC, Mr. Roger Brown, over allegations of racism, preference of foreign workers and discriminating against Nigerian employees levelled against him by workers of the company. The Federal Government equally accused Mr. Brown of being in possession of a Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Aliens Card (CERPAC) not based on a valid Expatriate Quota. It was also alleged that Mr Brown failed to honour invitations by the Ministry’s panel, which investigated the matter. The revocation was…

On the 23rd day of January 2023, the High Court of Lagos State delivered judgment in a suit filed by Olumide Babalola against a digital lending Company – Soko Lending Company for infringement of the right to privacy and breach of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation. In Suit No. LD/13031MFHR/2022, privacy lawyer claimed: 1. A DECLARATION that by virtue of article 2.2 of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019, the Respondent lacks lawful basis to process (collect, store and/or use) the Applicant’s personal data (especially his name and telephone number) to send the Applicant unsolicited and offensive Whatsapp messages and…