Law for the Layman

Description

Law for the Layman is a unique book which provides a ready answer to almost any problem that may possibly arise in simple day-to-day contractual transactions. It treats basic principles of the Laws of Contract, Sale of Goods, Hire-Purchase, Agency and Torts.

Essentially written for the layman, it also deals with Wills and Administration of Estates, Marriage and Matrimonial Causes and Limitation Law.

There is a chapter on constitution as operational in the amended Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Written in simple and racy prose, technical terms and decided cases are deliberately omitted in order to make the book easy to read.

The book is primarily for the layman, but lawyers will also read it with profit. It is a book for all and sundry.

About the Author

Honourable Justice Adegoke Amao Kolajo was born in Saki, Oyo State of Nigeria. He attended N.A. School, Saki between 1941 and 1948. He taught for a year in 1949 before his admission into the Baptist Boys’ High School (BBHS), Abeokuta in 1950. He graduated in 1955 from BBHS where he passed the West African School Certificate Examination. He thereafter worked as a teacher, a clerical officer and an agriculture assistant between 1956 and 1962.

He obtained the LL.B degree of the University of London in 1965. He was called to the English Bar in 1966 and enrolled as a legal practitioner in Nigeria in 1967. He was in private legal practice from 1967 to 1970. He worked as a State Counsel and later as a Senior State Counsel in the defunct Western State and later Oyo State Ministry of Justice, Ibadan between 1970 and 1976.

He later transferred his services to the Oyo State Judiciary in 1976 and worked first as a Chief Customary Court President and later as a Chief Magistrate Grade 1 between 1976 and 1986. He was the Deputy Chief Registrar of the Oyo State High Court from 1987 to 1989 and Chief Registrar from 1989 to 1991. In March 1991, he was appointed a Judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

He has attended many national and international conferences and seminars. He has published five volumes of his selected rulings and judgments. He is the author of For Such A Time As This—a collection of Biblical essays.