Akure,
AGUDA, (Justice)
Timothy
- Married
Private legal practitioner at Ibadan, July 1952 – May 30, 1955; Crown Counsel, Ministry of Justice, Western Region June 1, 1955- December 31, 1957; Senior Crown Counsel, Grade Two, January 1st, 1958- July 16, 1959; Senior Crown Counsel, Grade One, July 17, 1959- June 30, 1961; Administrator- General and Public Trustee for Western Nigeria, July 1, 1961-June 30, 1965, Legal Draftsman in the Western Nigeria Ministry of Justice, July 1, 1965-May 19, 1967; Head and acting Dean of the faculty of Law, (University of Ife), September 1, 1965 to July 17, 1966; Director of Public Prosecutions for the Western State, May 20, 1967-May 1, 1968; A judge of the High Court of Western State, May 2, 1968 – February 2, 1972; April 1, 1975 – October 31st, 1975; Chief Justice of the Republic of Botswana; a member of the Court of Appeal for the Kingdom of Lesotho; member of the Court of Appeal for the Kingdom of Swaziland, February 3, 1972 – March 31, 1975; Chief Justice of the Western State, November 1, 1975 – June 30, 1976; Chief Judge of the Ondo State, July 1 – Chief Judge Ondo State, former Chief Justice of the Western State
National Honour of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (O.F.R.) October, 1976; Commission: Chairman of the Committee on the Settlement of Boundary Disputes (Western State of Nigeria Government), 1975; Chairman of the Committee on the Federal Capital of Nigeria (Federal Government), 1975
wrote over ten books, including “Mens Rea in Nigerian Law” – Ph.D. Thesis, 1963; “Principles of Criminal Liability in Nigerian Law’, and “Law of Evidence in Nigerian”,
published over twelve articles in learned journals, including “Illiterates Protection Ordinance Examined in Nigerian Bar Journal; “Legal Development in Bot swana Notes and Records (1973) and ‘The Role of the Judge with special reference to Civil Liberties” in East African Law Journal (1975); Law Reports: Secretary, Western Nigeria Law Reports, 1959/60; member of the Editorial Board of The Nigeria Monthly Law Reports, 1964- 1967; chairman, Editorial Board of the Nigerian Monthly Law Reports, 1967-1968; Correspondent to All African Law Reports, 1965-1968; member, Editorial Advisory Board of The Nigerian Monthly Law Reports, 1968 to date; member of Western Nigeria Law Reports, 1975; gave many public law lectures and presented many learned papers
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