The Nigerian Bar Association NBA at it’s Emergency NEC Meeting deliberated on the terms of Reference submitted by the committee.

The primary objective of the Committee as stated in its Terms of Reference was to “devise feasible ways to improve the poor remuneration of legal practitioners, and design a workable and enforceable framework under which lawyers will (i) charge the right fees for their legal services using acceptable and realistic metrics; and (ii) ensure that those fees, when earned, trickle down, in terms of reasonable living wages and emoluments, to those who work with, or for, the lawyers”.

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This Report is divided into two (2) sections, the first section dealing with Fees and Charges and the second dealing with Remuneration in accordance with the Committee’s primary objective.