JOHN DARE OLOYEDE

He is a law graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife. He graduated in Second Class Upper Division winning the Professor B.O. Iluyomade Prize as the best graduating student in Administrative Law in 1991. He has put about 29 years into continuous legal practice beginning with the chambers of Chief Mike Ahamba S. A. N. in Owerri, Imo State before joining the firm of B. A. M. Fashanu (S.A.N) where he worked continuously for nearly 10 years before establishing his own practice. A lawyer’s lawyer, Oloyede possesses extensive and wide-ranging experience in practice before the High Courts, the Courts of Appeal and the Supreme Court in Nigeria by reason of which he co-ordinates all litigation and litigation-related matters in chambers.

He is a member of the International Bar Association and an Associate Member of Negotiation and Conflict Management Group – an international private initiative aimed at promoting mediation and conciliation as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism. With the advent of the Multi-Door Court House in Lagos State as an offshoot of the Negotiation and Conflict Management Group, he has positioned his firm such that the presence of the firm as functional mediators in handling diverse cases referred for mediation is assured. In furtherance of a desire to promote and participate actively in AlternativeDispute Resolution (ADR), he joined the reputable Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK in 2009 as Associate Member.

Thereafter, he enrolled at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Nigeria (CIAN) and upon satisfying the necessary requirements, was conferred with the Fellowship of the body in November, 2014. He is the in-house expert in matters relating to real estate whether litigation or otherwise. He has also had cause to handle criminal matters of different kinds at courts of first instance and appellate courts. He has attended seminars and workshops within Nigeria and in Europe in matters relating to Maritime Practice and Arbitration. He is a certified Notary Public of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He is also a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International and a former President of Rotary Club, Surulere North East.

John Dare Oloyede is presently the Principal Partner in J. D. Oloyede’s Law Chambers which is a well-equipped service oriented law firm with the competencies and capabilities to answer and undertake assignments within the whole range of work available to legal practice and alternative dispute resolution. The practice was established in the 1990’s, but later expanded in the years with young, vibrant, dynamic, upright and intellectually inspired ladies and gentlemen. Irrevocably committed to unquestionable integrity, the firm maintains high ethical standards in the delivery of qualitative professional legal serviceswithin Nigeria and outside.