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case has abused the legal process by using the process of the court to gain unmerited advantages over the defendant, to the detriment of that
Defendant. In 1994, Atake persuaded a full bench of seven Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria to decide that a judicial officer who has ceased to be one could appear for himself in person in a court of law rather than being represented by counsel and that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria did not place such a bar on a judicial officer who has ceased to be one. Atake wrote on the Legal Aspects of Privatisation during the exercise in Nigeria in the 1990s. As a result of his extensive writings in the press and comments on television, he was invited to deliver and delivered the Public Lecture on the Legal Aspects of Privatisation and Commercialisation at the International Conference organized by the Technical Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation (TCPC) in 1990. He served in the sub-committee of the Technical Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation (TCPC) for the privatisation of the Nigerian Fish Company.
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different parts of the country and his family moved along with him, the schools include Emotan
Preparatory School, Benin, Our Lady's Preparatory School, Sapele, and Hussey Model School Warri. Atake was educated at an independent boarding school for boys Copford College, Copford, Colchester, England, where he became a School Prefect, House Captain, Athletics and Table Tennis Captain and played Soccer and Rugby for the school teams.
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Atake has represented clients in the areas of
Maritime/Admiralty Law, Constitutional and Commercial Law in Nigerian courts of various levels. In 2009, Atake convinced a Judge in a trial involving American witnesses that the court be moved to New York in the United States to hear further proceedings
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In a 1997 case where Atake represented the defendants/Appellants, he convinced the
Justices of the Supreme Court to rule that a case that has been discontinued and struck out, did not prevent a Court from making consequential orders, where it is established that, the Plaintiff who discontinued the
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He has at various times been described as one of the best dressed men in
Nigeria and one of the best dressed lawyers and a Nigerian worthy of note. He is known for his sense of style and has featured in several newspapers and magazines and won various professional and style awards. For several
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Atake attended St. Saviours School in Ikoyi, Lagos, while his father served as a Senior
Magistrate in the British Colony of Lagos in the 1950s and early 1960s. He also attended a number of other schools across Nigeria as his father was occasionally transferred to work as a judicial officer in
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and wrote an LL.M dissertation under her supervision - Is restitution an appropriate remedy for taking of foreign property in contemporary
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