Jamal

Court: When did you leave Law School? Counsel: I refuse to answer that question in the rudest manner. Court: You are being rude and committing contempt… I hereby order that you be detained. (Any curious lawyer should read the case of Candide-Johnson v Edigin)

Sometime in June 2025, on my behalf and upon my instruction, my colleagues instituted an action seeking the interpretation and application of certain provisions of the Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023; the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act, 2018; and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as altered). My grouse was against a top Nigerian bank with which we had opened a corporate account. Due to certain unresolved challenges, we instructed the bank to close the account. The bank complied. However, we continued receiving promotional emails and text messages through the corporate and personal email addresses and phone numbers supplied during the process of opening the account, notwithstanding that the account had been closed. For this reason, I instructed my legal representatives to write to the bank, requesting that my personal data and the firm's corporate data should no longer be processed for the purpose of sending promotional emails and text messages. The bank replied, confirming that our request had been received and that the promotional emails and text messages would cease. Unfortunately, weeks later, they kept coming. We took out an Originating Summons. After a well contested process, the FCT High Court delivered its judgment and found in our favour. We first had to cross the hurdle of a Notice of Preliminary Objection, which raised three issues, one of which concerned the status of a Limited Partnership and whether it ought to have commenced the action in its own name or through its partners. The court upheld our submission on the bank's obligation to respect our right to be forgotten, holding that the banker-customer relationship formed the basis for receiving, retaining, and processing our data, and that once that relationship ended, and a formal request was additionally made that promotional emails and text messages to us should cease and that our data should no longer be processed for that purpose, the bank became statutorily bound to comply. It is rewarding to note that all seven declaratory, injunctive, and monetary reliefs sought were granted, albeit with modifications to about three of them. One of the highlights of this matter is that the Defendant was represented by one of the firms we look up to - a firm that has produced some of the most distinguished advocates and jurists in Nigeria. Despite this towering accomplishment, my colleagues repeatedly emphasised throughout the proceedings that the learned Silk who led the Defendant's team, together with counsel appearing with him, extended warmth and professional camaraderie to them, even commending the quality of our processes and the depth of our arguments. The judgment is a well considered one. The fact that His Lordship carefully navigated some of our reliefs and granted them qualified nods out of respect for the provisions of the Nigeria Data Protection Act is, in itself, quite instructive. Colleagues and seekers of knowledge, here is David Ogundipe & Anor v. Stanbic IBTC Bank Ltd. I hope this decision (and any possible appelate outcome) contributes to the body of legal knowledge and jurisprudence and helps shape corporate culture, particularly in relation to the processing and retention of personal data. I thank O.E. Oluwadamisi, Esq Praise Ajayi, Esq, and E.A. Unuarhemhen, Esq, who are three years, one year, and two weeks post call respectively, for the quality representation they provided.

I didn't even have a note for any of the courses. How did you manage to have 7 for each?😂😂 Thanks to @bamjamjam for allowing me to read his notes. I said it before; if we wrote thesis in law school i would acknowledge his selflessness.I let him play PES on my laptop too though. 🤷🏼‍♂️

I was at the Federal High Court, Abeokuta, to represent a client in 2025 in a contentious banking matter. Upon getting to court that day, an old lawyer in his 60s, who, of course, sat at the inner bar waved at me and gestured for me to come forward. When I got to him, he introduced himself as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria who practices in Abuja and that his office is located at Wuse. He informed me that he took a late flight from Abuja to lagos the previous day and felt tired upon getting to court. He further informed me that he cherished how I appeared neat and ready for the business of the day and how I resembled one of his biological sons in the UK. I saw it as a great honour to be recognized and appreciated amidst all young wigs in the court that day by the learned Silk until he said: "Muhammed, my mind is telling me you are brilliant chap and your future will be bright in law practice. Meanwhile, I shall be calling my case out of turn. Appear with me. Write your full name on my diary, please. " I complied and appeared with him on that day. After he was through with his matter, he gave me one of his phone contacts and wrote my account details boldly in his diary, promising me an appearance fee before the end of that day. Since March 2025 till date, the phone contact has been unreachable, and I have received nothing as the appearance fee as promised. Don't tell me the learned Silk scammed me ooo. 😢 😢 😢 I don't want to believe that ejohh!! Learned Silk Lati Abuja? ko possible 😢 😭!!! Capitalism ya werey gaan ni oo 😢 😭!