Nigeria, Aug. 26 -- The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted Joe-Kyari Gadzama, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), leave to challenge his three-year suspension from legal practice by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC).

The leave granted by Judge Obiora Egwuatu on 20 August gave Mr Gadzama permission to apply for judicial review and seek an order of certiorari to quash the LPDC's Direction delivered on 29 July.

The court ordered him to file the substantive application within seven days of the order and adjourned the matter until 4 September for hearing, subject to service on the respondents.

The development followed an ex-parte application filed on 19 August by Mr Gadzama through his lawyers led by Bolaji Ayorinde...