Nigeria, Sept. 29 -- The Federal High Court in Abuja has declared the enforcement of a three-year suspension imposed on Joe-Kyari Gadzama, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) unconstitutional.

The court also barred the implementation, publication, transmission or enforcement of the LPDC's decision against Mr Gadzama, according to a statement shared with PREMIUM TIMES on Monday.

The statement from Mr Gadzama's legal team noted that the court declared that implementing or enforcing the LPDC direction against Mr Gadzama, in the absence of an effective appellate mechanism, was "inconsistent with Sections 36(1), 36(2) and 6(6)(b)" of the Nigerian Constitution and was therefore "unconst...