Fidelis Oditah

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Fidelis Oditah KC, SAN (born 1964) is a Nigerian barrister and an authority on insolvency law. He served as President of the Nigerian Branch of the International Law Association from 2014-2023. [1] [2] Oditah was born in Nigeria.

At the age of twenty he graduated from the University of Lagos with a first-class degree in law and twelve of the thirteen available prizes (1984). The following year, he graduated with the highest first-class honours awarded that year by the Nigerian Law School (1985). In the next year he was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship enabling him to study at the University of Oxford (Magdalen College, 1986–1989), where he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law (1987) and of Doctor of Philosophy (1989), completing his DPhil thesis in only two years.

Oditah was called to the bar (Lincoln's Inn) in 1992 and became a Queen's Counsel in 2003, aged thirty-nine, after eleven years at the bar.

Oditah published Legal Aspects of Receivables Financing in 1990. The book is an expanded version of his doctoral thesis.

Oditah was a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Merton College, Oxford and Travers Smith Braithwaite Lecturer in Corporate Finance Law in the University of Oxford from 1989 to 1997. He resigned in order to practice full-time at the English bar. He has been a visiting professor at the Oxford University Faculty of Law since 2000. He also served as a consultant to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) from 1995 to 1999.

Cases in which Oditah has appeared in include On Demand Information Plc & ors v Michael Gerson [2002] 2 WLR 919 (HL), Cadbury Schweppes plc v Somji [2001] 1 WLR 615 (CA), Re ASRS Establishment Ltd [2000] 2 BCLC 631 (CA) and BCCI v Akindele [2001] Ch 437 (CA).

Oditah was a candidate for the office of Governor of Delta State in Nigeria'in 2007. [3]

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  1. ↑ ILA. "Nigerian branch - ILA". International Law Association. ILA. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Kasali, Segun (20 April 2023). "ABUAD DVC, Prof. Damilola, becomes President, International Law Association". Tribune Online. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  3. ↑ vanguard (25 October 2014). "Much ado about zoning of Delta governorship". Vanguard News. Archived from the original on 6 January 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
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