The purpose of the Nigerian Bar Association stamp and seal is to ensure that legal practitioners who file processes in Court have their names on the roll of legal practitioners in Nigeria and that quacks, impostors and meddlesome interlopers do not infiltrate the legal profession and present themselves to litigants as legal Practitioners. Where an originating process is duly signed and stamped by the learned Counsel, and a stamp of the legal Practitioner affixed even though expired, the court held that there is no sufficient basis to strike out the said processes because doing so will amount to pushing technicalities too far. It is at best an irregularity, which can be remedied by affixing the unexpired stamp and seal. [1]
[1]Nkiru Emechebe v Ceto International Nigeria Limited (2017) LPELR-45365(CA) 15-18 paras A-E.