{"id":18555,"date":"2017-03-30T19:27:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T18:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18555"},"modified":"2017-05-31T11:14:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T10:14:29","slug":"uwais-hon-justice-muhammadu-lawal","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/uwais-hon-justice-muhammadu-lawal\/","title":{"rendered":"UWAIS, Hon. Justice Muhammadu Lawal"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> CON; jurist; b: June 12, 1936; ht: Zaria; so: Kaduna; m: Hajiya Saratu Ahmed, 1960; Hajiya Maryama Isa Wali, 1988. ed: Tudun WadaElementary School, Zaria, 1946-49;Zaria Middle School, Zaria, 1950-51; Barewa College, Zaria, 1952-57; Institute of Administration, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1960-61;School for Oriental and AfricanStudies,Universityof London, 1961-62;Gibson and Weldon, College of Law,London, 196162; Innsof CourtSchool of Law, Councilof LegalEducation, London, 1961-63; Post-Bar final course, Council of LegalEducation, London, 1963; Nigerian law School, Lagos, 1963. cr: Accounts Clerk, Nigerian Tobacco Company Ltd, Zaria, 1957-58; asst. Publicity Officer, Ministry of Information of Northern Region of Nigeria, 1959-64; Pupil State Counsel, Ministry of Justice, Northern Region of Nigeria, 1964-66; State Counsel, 1966-69; snr. State Counsel, 1969-70; Principal Secretary, North-Central State of Nigeria, 1971-73; ag. High Court Judge, High Courts of North-Central, Benue-Plateau and North- Eastern States of Nigeria, 1973-74; High Court Judge, North-Central and North-Eastern Statesof Nigeria, 1974-76; ag. ChiefJustice of Kaduna State, 1976; Justice, Court of Appeal, Federal Court of Appeal of Nigeria, 1977-79; Justice, Supreme Court of Nigeria, 1979-95; ag. Chief Justice of Nigeria, 1991-92; Chief Justice of Nigeria, 19952006; ch. Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the Awards of Contracts by the Military Government of North-Central State, 1976; Jimeta Disturbances Tribunal, Gongola State, 1984; mm. Council of Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 1987-94; v-ch. Nigerian Body of Benchers, 1992-93; Commonwealth mm. Presidential Commission of Inquiry, Sri Lanka, 1993; ch. Nigerian Body of Benchers, 1993-94; mm. Board of Governors, National Judicial Institute of Nigeria, 1991- 95; ch. since 1995; mm. Nigerian Body of Benchers since 1979; f. Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 1997; Honorary presd. World JuristAssociation, since 1997. h: Honorary Doctorate degree, Nasarawa State University, Keffi Nasarawa State; award: Lifetime Achievement Award, Thisday Award, 2006; nh: Commander of the Order of the Niger, 1980. hob: walking, billards, swimming, off: c\/o Supreme court of Nigeria. P.M.B. 308, Abuja, tel: 09-5236841. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18555","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18555","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\/18555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20763,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18555\/revisions\/20763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18555"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}