{"id":11593,"date":"2017-02-22T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T09:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11593"},"modified":"2017-05-19T14:15:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T13:15:30","slug":"oladipo-honourable-justice-jacob-adetunji","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/oladipo-honourable-justice-jacob-adetunji\/","title":{"rendered":"OLADIPO, Honourable Justice Jacob Adetunji"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born February 2, 1928 in Abeokuta, Ogun State; Education: St. Paul&#8217;s School, Igbore, Abeokuta, 1934-37; Baptist Boys&#8217; High School, Abeokuta, 1938-46; Metropolitan College of Law (as a private student); Holborn College of Law, London, 1958 &#8211; June, 1960; Council of Legal Education (Inns of Court) London, 1958 &#8212; December 1959; Qualifications Degree of Barrister at Law; Certificate for attending six months practical training course at English Council of Legal Education; LL.B. (London); called to the English Bar on July 12, 1960 and admitted to practice in Nigeria on December 15, 1960; Married with six children excluding an adopted child, making a total of 7; Career: Legal Department, Indus trial and Commercial Finance Corporation in London; The Mortgage Bank, Mortgage City of London for courses on Legal Drafting and general legal duties; Assistant legal officer and later legal adviser to the Western Region Finance Corporation 1960-63; Private practice: In the Chambers of Messrs Okusaga, Ademola, Abimbola and Obtawura at Ibadan; Junior Counsel to late Chief Of culipd Moore at the Coker Commission of Enquiry which lasted six months in 1963; Junior Counsel to Chief Rotimi Williams, SAN, in 1963 in few cases at Warri and Ibadan; Appointment held: Secretary to the Council of Legal Education, October 1963-75; Director, Nigerian Law School, November 1975 &#8211; to December, 1978; Associate member, Associate of Continuing Legal Education Administrators of America, 1970 to date;Publications. Several articles in professional Journals; Clubs and other Associations Member of the Yoruba Tennis Club, Lagos since 1963; Member of the National Parents Association of Nigeria, 1978; Hobbies Walking, writing, religious activities, a social worker; Inter national Deacon and Chancellor of the Church of the Lord (Aladura) Organisation, 1965 to date; Member, World Council of Churches, 1975 to date; Appointed High Court Judge of Ogun State in January 1,1979. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11593","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11593"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}