British Nigeria Law Forum


c/o Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
One Fetter Lane
London EC4A 1JB

Tel: +44 (0)20 7556 4428
Fax: +44 (0)20 7556 4461
Email: info@bnlf.org
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Objectives of BNLF

  • To improve relations, understanding and mutual collaboration between the legal professions in Nigeria and the United Kingdom.

  • To develop legal, business and cultural links with Nigeria and to exchange ideas and information.

  • To assist with training and education of Nigerian lawyers and law students in the United Kingdom and vice versa and

  • To arrange conferences and other events on specific areas of law of mutual interest.

   

BNLF Updates

For your diary:

BNLF Informal Networking - The next networking meeting is taking place in London on Wednesday 8 July 2009, 6.30pm onwards. (please note that there will be no networking meeting in August 2009 due to holidays).
Venue is the Brookes Brothers Wine Bar & Restaurant, 33-35 Brooke Street, London EC1 2NS (Brooke Street is off High Holborn. Nearest tube station is Chancery Lane (Exit 2). Brooke Street is the immediate left turn, just after Barclays Bank. The bar is located on the left hand side and is signposted.).

Click Here to download the BNLF May 2009 Newsletter

Law Society Council elections - BME seats
The Law Society will be sending out voting papers for this year's Council elections at the beginning of June. One of the contested constituencies is for ethnic minorities (two places). For data protection reasons, the Law Society is able to send voting papers for this constituency only to those members who have given explicit consent to receiving Society notices, based on ethnicity. Solicitors who are eligible to vote in this constituency, and have not already consented to receive voting papers, should contact councilelections@lawsociety.org.uk before 26 June, providing their address and Roll number. Voting will close on 3 July.