KUNLE KALEJAIYE V THE LEGAL PRACTITIONERS DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE [LPDC]

Issue:

At the Legal Practitioners' Disciplinary Committee, Kunle Kalejaiye, the appellant in this appeal, was charged on three-count complaint by the Nigeria Bar Association, (NBA, for short), for engaging in a conduct unbecoming of a legal practitioner contrary to Rules 1, 15, 30, 31, 34, 36 and 55 of the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners [RPC). At the end of it all, the Committee found the appellant guilty of infamous conduct in the course of the performance of his duty as a legal practitioner. It thus, directed the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court to strike out his name from the roll of legal practitioners in Nigeria. The Committee, further, directed that its order, as contained in the direction, be published, immediately, in any edition of the Punch Newspaper. The said order, the Committee finally directed, should be served on Heads of all superior Courts of the Federation, the Inspector General of Police and all the Commissioners of Police. This appeal is therefore the expression of the appellant's dissatisfaction with the above directions of the Committee.