JUST QUEST ATTORNEYS

The Court of Appeal has settled this issue in the case of F.R.N.v.Ozekhome (2021) 9 NWLR (Pt 1782)448 ratio one.

On Right of legal practitioner to fees for services rendered and whether bound to ask client source of money used to pay such fees -

"A legal practitioner is entitled to his fees for professional services rendered and such fees cannot be rightly labeled as proceeds of crime. Further, it is not a requirement of the law that a legal practitioner would go into inquiry before receiving his fees from his client, to find out the source of the fund from which he would be paid. In this case, there was no evidence on record at the time the money was paid to the respondent’s chambers to show that the money was from the proceeds of unlawful activities.Therefore, the trial court rightly refused to hold that the money was from unlawful activities"

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