{"id":15918,"date":"2024-01-23T10:34:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T10:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=15918"},"modified":"2024-01-23T10:34:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T10:34:48","slug":"federal-high-court-orders-cac-to-register-new-lawyers-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/23\/federal-high-court-orders-cac-to-register-new-lawyers-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal High Court Orders CAC to Register New Lawyers&#8217; Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal High Court in Abuja has directed the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) to register a new lawyers&#8217; association following a lawsuit by Bolaji Ayorinde, Mela Nunge, Garba Gajam, Emeka Ichoku, Chioma Ferguson, and Tejumola Adigun.<\/p>\n<p>The court, in a December 15, 2023 judgment, ordered CAC to approve and register any of the proposed names submitted by the plaintiffs, including &#8220;Nigerian Law Society,&#8221; &#8220;Nigerian Bar Society,&#8221; &#8220;Nigerian Lawyers\u2019 Society,&#8221; and &#8220;Association of Legal Practitioners of Nigeria.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The judge emphasized the right to peaceful assembly and association, ensuring constitutional protection for the intended association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal High Court in Abuja has directed the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) to register a new lawyers&#8217; association following a lawsuit by Bolaji Ayorinde, Mela Nunge, Garba Gajam, Emeka Ichoku, Chioma Ferguson, and Tejumola Adigun. The court, in a December 15, 2023 judgment, ordered CAC to approve and register any of the proposed names [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":13101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15945,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918\/revisions\/15945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}