Investment In Legal Education Will Improve Expertise – Etomi
Mr. George Etomi, former chairman, Section on Business Law of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has admonished African nations to invest more in legal education to improve the expertise of local legal practitioners.
Etomi said the development would equip the legal section with the requisite expertise to compete in the liberalised legal service market, which he said, was already happening, albeit unregulated.
He who spoke at the plenary session at the ongoing 59th NBA conference in Lagos said investing in legal education in Africa would liberalise legal services.
He said: “The aspirations of the African Union are similar to the European Union. The European Union was established in 1993 and has achieved political and social-economic integration and harmonisation across the member states.
“Member states have been able to harmonise their qualification requirement for EU lawyers, immigration policies, energy policies.
“It will not be out of place to draw lessons from the EU. The directive set model Uniform Rules pertaining to lawyers wishing outside their home jurisdictions on a scale that covers the entire continent.
“For Africa, these rules must encompass qualification and practice requirements such as the global standardisation of qualifying certificates and discipline measures to be meted out to erring practitioners operating outside their own jurisdiction.”
Etomi, therefore, said that efforts must be made to implement a unified curriculum on business law at the university level as a foundation to encourage cross-border legal practice.
Another speaker, Mrs. Kofo Dosekun, who examined ‘Opportunities In Cross Border Trade Legal Services’, noted it would increase the convergence between law and technology opportunities for lawyers to develop expertise knowledge in emerging technologies.
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