{"id":13956,"date":"2017-03-06T13:09:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T12:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13956"},"modified":"2017-05-25T13:32:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T12:32:57","slug":"onalaja-hon-justice-moronkeji-omotayo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/onalaja-hon-justice-moronkeji-omotayo\/","title":{"rendered":"ONALAJA, Hon. Justice Moronkeji Omotayo"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OFR, LL.B, LL.M, BL; jurist; DOB: July 24, 1933; Hometown: Ijebu-Ode; so: Ogun; Married: Margaret Folashade Ogunsanya, 1959; nc: four sons. two daughters; Education: Holy Trinity School. Ebute-Ero, Lagos. 1938-43; Lagos Cathedral Church School, Faji. Lagos, 1944; CMS Grammar School, Lagos, 1945-51: London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. 1953-58; Inner Temple, 1955-59; Council of Legal Education. London, Career: Called to the English Bar, 1959; called to the Nigerian Bar. June 1960: engaged in Private Legal Practice: defended Professor Wole Soyinka in the Tape Robbery Charge at Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (now Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria), Ibadan, 1964-65; defended Professor Soyanwo charged with the obstruction of the late Premier of Western Region, Chief S. L. Akintola. both were discharged and acquited; Judge, High Court of Lagos State, 1980-93; Judge, Court of Appeal, 1993; Notary Public, 1968; mm: Ogun State University Council, Ago-Iwoye, International Bar Association, 1959-80; founding editor, Nigerian Monthly Law Reports. 1964-80; World Peace Through Law, USA, I964-80- Honorary Degreee: Doctor of Law. (Honoris Causa). Olabisi Onabanjo University, AgoIwoye. 2006; f: Royal Society of Arts of Great Britain: consulting editor. Nigerian Monthly Law Reports; consulting editor. University of Ibadan Law Journal; mm: Council. Ogun State University, nh: Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic. 2004; sc: President, Rotary International, Ibadan, 1981-82. publ: Commentaries from the Bench. Part I. 1991; Commentaries from the Bench. Part II. 1998. hob: football, table tennis, swimming, walking, reading classical and gospel music, off: Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, Lagos. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13956","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13956","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13970,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13956\/revisions\/13970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13956"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}