Blue Silks’ rank: ALDRAP files notice of appeal, says judge erred by granting restraining order

The Association of Legislative and Advocacy Drafting Practitioners, ALDRAP, has filed a notice of appeal against an Abuja Federal High Court judgment which stopped the conferment of the Blue Silks rank on non-litigation lawyers.
The court, presided by Justice Omotosho, had in its judgment granted an order of perpetual injunction restraining ALDRAP from conferring the Blue Silks rank of Senior Counsel of Nigeria, SCN.
ALDRAP had introduced the Blue Silks rank as an alternative to the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, title conferred on lawyers adjudged to have merited the honour.
But the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, rejected the Blue Silks rank, describing it as illegal. In the same...