14 Legal Practitioners Remuneration (For Business, Legal Service And Representation) Order 2023

Paragraph 14 of the Legal Practitioners Remuneration (For Business, Legal Service And Representation) Order 2023 is about Interpretation. It provides as follows:

In this Order
“Bar” means the Nigerian Bar Association;

“Business” includes, but is not limited to, legal advice, representation, negotiation, litigation, preparation or execution of legal documents, conveyancing, e-transactions, and other related administrative tasks necessary
for the execution of the professional assignment on behalf of a client ;

“Charges” has the same meaning as provided for in the Legal Practitioners Act;
“Client” means any individual, group, or entity who seeks and receives professional legal services from a legal practitioner including, but is not limited to, those on whose behalf a legal practitioner prepares a land instrument, those who seek legal advice or consultation, those who are represented in litigation, or those who require any other service a legal practitioner is empowered to perform by virtue of being a legal practitioner;

“General retainer” means a contract between a legal practitioner and his client for all legal service, business or representation or as often as the client requires for same;
“Remuneration” includes professional fees, commission, charges or reward payable to a legal practitioner for service rendered to a client;

“Specific retainer” means a contract between a legal practitioner and his client over prescribed or identified areas of legal service, business or representation;
“States” include the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja;

“State band 3” includes Federal Capital Territory and Lagos State;

“State band 2” includes Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Benue, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Ekiti, Kwara, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau
and Rivers States;
“State band I” includes Abia, Adamawa, Anambra, Bauchi, Borno, Ebonyi, Enugu, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Kastina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe and Zamfara States;

“State bund 1, 2 and 3” mean, with respect to a legal practitioner’s remuneration, the state where the legal practitioner carries on his practice or the state where the business or service is to be carried out;

“Tax office” means any government agency which has jurisdiction over finance, internal generated revenue, and taxation in the various States in Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

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