Section 9 of the Legal Practitioners Act: Liability for Negligence (Nigeria Lawyers)
Citation: Legal Practitioners Act 1975, Chapter L11 (Cap. L11), Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004
9. Liability for Negligence
(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a person shall not be immune from liability for damage attributable to his negligence while acting in his capacity as a legal practitioner, and any provision purporting to exclude or limit that liability in any contract shall be void.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) of this section shall be construed as preventing the exclusion or limitation of the liability aforesaid in any case where a legal practitioner gives his services without reward either by way of fees, disbursements or otherwise.
(3) Nothing in subsection (1) of this section shall affect the application to a legal practitioner of the rule of law exempting barristers from the liability aforesaid in so far as that rule applies to the conduct of proceedings in the face of any court, tribunal or other body.
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