{"id":11828,"date":"2017-02-23T10:22:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T09:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11828"},"modified":"2017-05-09T16:44:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T15:44:56","slug":"hon-chief-justice-atanda-fatai-williams","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/hon-chief-justice-atanda-fatai-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"FATAYI-WILLIAMS, Hon. Chief Atanda"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hon. Chief Justice Atanda Fatai- Williams, Federal Republic ofNigeria FATAYI-WILLIAMS, (Hon. Chief Justice, Atanda, bom 22nd October, 1918 in Lagos, Nigeria; Schools atten ded: Methodist Boys&#8217; High School, Lagos, 1929-1938; Trinity Hall, Uni versity of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 1943-1947; Middle Temple, London 1947-1948; Qualifications: B.A. Hons. (Cantab) 1946;LL.B. Hons (Cantab) 1947; M.A. (Cantab) 1949, Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple, June 1948; Appointment Held: Private Practice, Lagos, 1946-1950; Crown Counsel, Lagos, 1950-1955; Deputy Commissioner for Law Revision, Wes tern Nigeria, 1955-1958; Chief Regis trar, High Court of Western Nigeria, 1958-1960; High Court Judge, 1960- 1967; Justice of Appeal, Western State Court of Appeal, 1967-1969; Justice, Supreme Court of Nigeria, 1969 &#8211; August 1979; Chief Justice of Nigeria since August 1979; Chairman Federal Judicial Service Commis sion; Chairman, Judiciary Consultative Committee, Member International Commission of Jurists; Member, World CouncU of Judges; Clubs\/Social\/Public and other Associations: Chairman, Board of Trustees, The Van Leer Nige rian Education Trust, 1973-; Chair man, Elder Dempster Trust, 1979- Trustee, Nigerian Youth Trust, 1979- Chairman, Crescent Bearers, Lagos Member, Nigerian Institute of Inter national Affairs, 1972\u2014; Chairman National Archives Committee, 1979- Member, National Museum Society Lagos; Life Fellow of the Royal So ciety of Arts, London, since 1949 President, Metropolitan Club, Lagos Member, Lagos Motor Boat Club Lagos; Member, Island Club, Lagos Hon. Member, Ikoyi Club, Lagos Member, United Oxford and Cambri dge University Club, London; Member Athenaeum Club, London; Publica tions: &#8220;Revised Laws of the Western Region of Nigeria, 1959, co-author with Sir John Verity, former Chief Justice of Nigeria&#8221;, &#8220;Sentencing Pro cesses, Practices and Attitudes, as seen by an Appeal Court Judge, 1970&#8221;, &#8220;Editor, Western Nigeria Law Reports, 1955-1958.&#8221;; Married to Irene Violet (nee Lofts) in 1948 and has three sons; His hobbies are: Investment Analysis, reading, walking, swimming, travelling and speedboats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11828","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11828","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20105,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11828\/revisions\/20105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11828"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}