{"id":7950,"date":"2017-01-16T11:04:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T10:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7950"},"modified":"2017-04-19T09:35:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T08:35:07","slug":"egbue-justice-don-onyechi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/egbue-justice-don-onyechi\/","title":{"rendered":"EGBUE, Justice Don Onyechi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LL.B, BL, jurist, born November 11, 1931, Onitsha, Anambra State; married Lorina Estella Finlayson 1961, three sons, one daughter; Education: St John&#8217;s School, Onitsha, 1936- 39, Holy Trinity School, Onitsha, 1940, Joseph&#8217;s School, Onitsha, 1941-45, Our Lady&#8217;s High School, Onitsha, 1946-49, Lon don School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1954-57, Manchester University, 1961-62; Career: Called tothe English BaratGray&#8217;s Inn, 1958; Legal Assistant, Federal Administrator- General&#8217;s Office, Lagos, 1959-61; Crown Counsel, Federal Ministry ofJustice, Lagos, 1961 -62; LegalSecretary to the Governor of the Federation, 1962; acting Registrar of Commercial Legislation, Federal Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Lagos, 1962-64; Registrar ofShips, Federal Ministry ofTrans port, Lagos, 1964-65; Acting Deputy Fed eral Administrator-General, Federal Minis try of Justice, Lagos, 1965; acting Senior State Counsel, Federal Ministry of Justice, Lagos, 1966; Senior State Counsel, 1966; Second Counsel to the Electricity Corpora tion ofNigeria Tribunal of Inquiry, 1966; Se nior State Counsel, Grade I, Ministry of Jus tice, Enugu, 1966-71; Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Anambra State, 1984-86; appointed Judge, High Court of Anambra State, since 1986-96; chairman, Anambra State Advisory Council onPreroga tiveof Mercy, 1984-96; chairman, Miscella neousOffences Tribunal, 1986-91; chairman, Anambra State Local Government Election Appeal Tribunal, 1997; member, Anambra State Judicial Committee, 1984-86; member, Councilof Legal Education, 1984-86;mem ber, Legal Practitioner&#8217;s Disciplinary Com mittee, 1984-86; member, Bodyof Benchers, 1984-86; Traditional Title: Ezennia; Hobby: reading, music; Official Address: 5, Idemili Drive, Independence Layout, Enugu, Enugu State; Telephone: 046-456156<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7950","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7950","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\/7950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19387,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7950\/revisions\/19387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}