{"id":13272,"date":"2017-03-02T14:26:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T13:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13272"},"modified":"2017-05-23T17:03:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T16:03:37","slug":"kooffreh-justice-edem","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/kooffreh-justice-edem\/","title":{"rendered":"KUFRE, Justice Edem"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> LL.B, BL, jurist, born March 10, 1925, Esien Town, Calabar, Cross River State; married Ekanem Miranda Edet 1963,six sons, two daughters; Education: Hope Waddell Training Institu tion, Calabar 1930-34, Government School, Manfe, Cameroun 1935, West African People Institute, Calabar, 1940-44, Kennington College of Law, London, 1952- 55, Council of Legal Education, London, 1952-55;Career: Called to the English Bar, London, 1955; engaged in Private Legal Practice, Calabar, 1956-60; Magistrate, Grade I, Eastern Nigeria, 1960-62; Senior State Counsel, Eastern Nigeria, 1962-65; acting Director of Public Prosecutions, East ern Nigeria, 1965; Deputy Chief Registrar, Eastern Nigeria, 1966; Director of Public Prosecutions, Eastern Nigeria and South State, 1967-71; appointed Judge, High Court, South-Eastern State (now Cross River State), 1971; acting Chief Justice, South Eastern State, 1973-75; Chief Judge of Cross River State, 1976; member, InternationalAssocia tion ofJurists; Traditional Title: Ada Idaha Ke Eburutu\/Iboku; Hobbies: farming, read ing; Home: Esien Town, Calabar, Cross River State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13272","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13272","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20532,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13272\/revisions\/20532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13272"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}