The BCI informed the court that it has formed a five-member committee to have detailed deliberations with the bar and judiciary on their demand to redetermine the dress code of lawyers.

Amid a decade-long push by African countries to abolish colonial-era wigs in judicial systems, posts have surfaced online ...

In fact, if a barrister were to turn up to court wearing a wig before the 1700s, they would be breaking the dress code as the expected style up to this point was for lawyers to have clean ...