Justice Jimi Bada, Chairman of the three-man Panel of Appeal in Ibadan, on Tuesday ordered a lawyer, Abiodun Amole, to apologise to the court for misleading it into dismissing a case another counsel was appearing for before the panel.
According to Bada who admonished Amole, ”you misled the court into dismissing a suit that does not belong to you and breached the code of conduct of legal profession.
“You have no reason to be in the legal profession and deserve to be in prison for swearing to an affidavit and making it look as if the panel made a mistake.”
The judge added that no lawyer has done what Amole did in the last 40 years of my practice and over 20 years of being on the bench”.
He urged lawyers to be diligent and professional, so as not to lose their wigs and be sent to prison.
