{"id":18746,"date":"2017-03-31T05:19:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T04:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18746"},"modified":"2017-05-31T10:55:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T09:55:58","slug":"uzoukwu-barr-livy-i","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/uzoukwu-barr-livy-i\/","title":{"rendered":"UZOUkWU, Barr. Livy I."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> SAN, LL.B, BL, LL.M; lawyer^ administrator; b: August 30, 1958; ht: Umuhu-Okabia; Iga: Orsu; so: Imo; married, has children; ed: Awo-Idemili Secondary School, Orsu LGA, Imo State, 1972- 76; University ofIfe (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ue-lfe, 1977-81; Nigerian Law School, Victoria Island, Lagos, 1981 -82; Imo State University (now Abia State University) Uturu, 1988-90; United Nations University and. International LeadershipAcademy,Amman, Jordan; Currently, LLM external Student, University ofLondon, cr: Partner, ChiefC.C. Egole and Company, 1983-88; Attorney-General\/comm. for Justice, Imo State, 1994-96; Head of Chambers, LivyUzoukwu and Company, since 1988; LawColumnist, Sunday Statesman, 1986-94; mm: Imo State Security Council, 1994-96; Body of Benchers, 1994-%;Council on Legal Education, 1994-%; Imo State Boundary Committee, 1994-96, ex-officio executive mem. Nigerian Bar Association, Owerri branch, National Committee on Human Rights, Nigerian Bar Association; Contributing Editor, Orlu Year Book; co-founder and co-editor, 77k? Lawyer sJournal; co-founderand co-editor, Customary Court ofAppeal Law Reports, Imo State Magistrates and High Court&#8217;s Rules Committee since 1993, Nigerian BarAssociation,Commonwealth LawyersAssociation, International SocietyofPoets, Penal Reform International, National Geographical Society; International Society for Criminal Reforms; Honorary mem. Association of Fellows and Legal Scholars, Centre for International Legal Studies; awards: First Prize, Nigerian Institute of Management Young Managers Competition, Eastern Zone, 1988; Editor&#8217;s Choice AwardWinner, North American Open Poetry Contest 1993 and 1994; International Poet Merit Award Winner, International Society ofPoets, Maryland, USA, 1995; Editor&#8217;s Choice Award Winner, North American Open Poetry Contest, 1996; h: Senior Advocate ofNigeria (SAN); ah: Best All Round Student in West African School Certificate Result, Awo-Idemili Secondary School, 1979; publ: Grundnorm ofNigeria,GG Limited and GLP, Lagos, 1991; Remedies for Foreign Sellers ofGoods, Co-author, Sweet and Maxwell, London, 1993; The Comparative Law Year BookofInternational Business, Kluwer, London, 1998; and several articles in newspapers and learned journals; hpb: writing poems, travelling, football; off: Livy Uzoukwu and Company (Barristers and Solicitors), Plot 271, Ikenegbu layout P.O. Box 2902, Owerri, Imo State; tel: 083-233306; fax: 083-234386; e-m: uzoukwu@infoweb.abs.net <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18746","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18746","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18746"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}