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DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A WEB-BASED
LEGAL PRACTITIONER APPLICATION SYSTEM
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
To understand the web-based legal
practitioner application system, it includes not merely the profession, which
is practiced in courts but also covers law teaching, law research,
administration in different branches where law plays a role and in fact,
commercial and industrial employment and all other activities, which postulates
and requires the use of legal knowledge and skill and which adopts legal
process also fall within its scope. The wed based legal practitioner
comprises all those who use technical legal knowledge through net in performing
their various occupational roles. These will include such categories as
practitioners of law and legal advisers, judges and magistrates, Area court
Judges and Islamic Court Judges, academic lawyers and scholars, legal
technicians (e.g. consultants) etc.
A legal practitioner is a person entitled to
practice as a barrister (advocate) or as a barrister and solicitor. In
Nigeria, every legal practitioner is a barrister and solicitors. For exam
plc, an advocate practicing in a country whose legal system is similar to that
of Nigeria may be permitted by the chief justice of Nigeria to practice as a
barrister. The chief justice has no power to permit him to practices as a
solicitor. Further more, a senior Advocate of Nigeria is not entitled to
practice as a solicitor.
1.1 STATEMENT OF
PROBLEM
The problem statement is mainly centralised
on the existing method of wed-based legal practitioner application
system. The information obtained on-line, shows that a legal practitioner
is entitled to recover his charges by action in a court of competent jurisdiction.
In General, before a legal practitioner brings such action, a bill for the
charges containing particulars of the principal items included in the bill and
signed by him, or in the case of a firm by one of the partners or in the name
of the firm, must have been served on the client personally or left for him at
his last address as known to the practitioner or sent by post addressed to the
client at that address.
In addition, the period of one month
beginning with the date of delivery of the bill must have expired. There
are provisions in the legal practitioners for taxation of bills of charges
delivered by legal practitioner to his clients.
The council is to be consulted by the
Attorney-General of the federation before making regulations for the
enrolment as legal practitioners in Nigeria, Court of Appeal Enugu as a
case study, members of the legal profession in any other country on a
reciprocal basis.
The Attorney – General of the federation is
also required to hold consultations with the council before varying the rates
of practicing fees specified.
1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The web-based legal practitioner application
system has an increasingly important role in a modern state not only in
dispensation of justice but also in the formulation of a just legal order and
in the preservation of an efficient juristic order.
The characteristics of the on-line legal
practitioner such as independence, integrity, official administration of courts
and administration of justice.
There is a roll of legal practitioners kept
as a roll of court and maintained by the chief Registrar of the Supreme Court
of Nigeria. In general, a person is entitled to be enrolled if and
only if:
(a) He has been called to the bar by the body of Benchers; and
(b) He produces a certificate of his call to the Bar to the
Chief Registrar of Supreme Court.
In general, persons whose names are on the
roll of legal practitioners kept as a roll of court and maintained by the chief
Register of the Supreme Court are entitled to practice as barristers and
solicitors. However, the chief justice of Nigeria may, by warrant under
his hand authorise a person, whose name is not on the roll, on payment to the
Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of such fee not exceeding 50 Naira as may
be specified in the warrant, to practice as a barrister for the purpose of
specified proceedings and of any appeal brought in connection with those
proceedings.
The power of the chief justice to authorise a
person to practise as a barrister under this provision is exercisable where:
(a) an application for permission to practise as a barrister
is made to the chief justice by or on behalf of any person who is the opinion
of the chief justice is entitled to practise as an advocate in any country
where the legal system is similar to that of Nigeria; and
(b) the chief justice is of the opinion that it is expedient
to permit the person to practice as a barrister for the purpose of proceedings
with respect to which the application is brought.
Furthermore, a person for the time being
exercising the functions of any of the following offices is entitled to
practise as a barrister and solicitor for the purposes of the office:
(a) The office of the Attorney-General, solicitor-General or
Director of public prosecutions of the federation or of a state; and
(b) Such offices in the public service of the federation or a
state as the Attorney-General of the federation or of the state, as the may be.
1.3 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
Reference could be made from different parts
of the world about a case on-line. Considering the fact that information
are displayed on the web because, some Judges and Lawyers could be able to make
reference on how related cases are being handled.
For instance, somebody is having a case of
murder in the court and you want to search, to know how the case was treated or
how it was judged. As a lawyer, you may go on net, to search for a
related case to the case you are handling and how it was treated, in order to
know or for easy decision on your own cases.
1.4 LIMITATIONS
Although a person has
been enrolled as a legal practitioner, his right to practise as a legal
practitioner may be limited where:
(a) he is a senior Advocate of Nigeria; or
(b) he has not paid a practising fee: or
(c) he is a legal practitioner of less than seven years
standing.
The rank of legal practitioners known as
Senior Advocates of Nigeria is Equivalent to that of Queen’s Counsel which has
been abolished in Nigeria. The Amendment provides that the legal
practitioners privileges committee may by instrument confer the rank of senior
advocate of Nigeria on a legal practitioner who has been qualified to practice
as a legal practitioner is Nigeria for not less than 10 years and who has
achieved distinction in the legal profession in such manner as the committee
may from time to time determine.
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