The Committee worked for a continuous period of about 10 months during which period it held town hall meetings and consultations with lawyers, received several memoranda, reviewed completed questionnaires on its mandate and engaged a consultant (Viiasus Technology) to carry out a country wide survey on relevant aspects of its assignment and obtain data from over 6,000 responders across branches of the NBA in all the geo-political zones. At the end of its engagement, the Committee issued a 126-page report dated 24th
January 2022 (the “Report”).
The Report covers several issues including the approach taken by the legal profession in six other jurisdictions (Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom) in dealing with the issues under consideration; initiatives for increasing earning capacity of lawyers and law firms; recommendations on the manner of enforcement or implementation of the Committee’s proposals, etc. The Committee then makes further recommendations on what law firms should pay their lawyers; how lawyers should charge their clients for various matters and also produced a new remuneration order or scale of charges for the legal profession in Nigeria (the “New Scale”).
