Supo Shasore
{{Short description|Nigerian lawyer (born 1964)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Olasupo Shasore
| honorific_suffix = SAN
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| office = Attorney General of Lagos State
| term_start = 2007
| term_end = 2011
| governor = Babatunde Fashola
| predecessor = Yemi Osinbajo
| successor = Ade Ipaye
| birth_name = Olasupo Shasore
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1964|1|22}}
| birth_place = Lagos Island, Lagos, Nigeria
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| residence = Lagos, Nigeria
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| profession = Lawyer
| spouse = Gbemi Shasore
| children = 3
| website = {{URL|http://www.olasuposhasore.com}}
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Olasupo Shasore {{small|SAN}} (born 22 January 1964) is a Nigerian lawyer{{Cite web|url=https://whoswholegal.com/olasupo-shasore-san|title = Olasupo Shasore SAN}} and a founding partner in the law firm of Africa Law Practice NG & Co,{{Cite web|url=https://alp.company/our-people#olasupo-shasore|title = Our People | ALP | A leading corporate commercial law firm in Lagos Nigeria}} a commercial law firm in Nigeria. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He was Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice of Lagos State from 2007 to 2011.{{Cite web|url=https://lagosministryofjustice.org/past-attorney-generals/|title = Past Attorney Generals » Lagos State Ministry of Justice}}
Education
Shasore attended the Federal Government College Lagos and Igbobi College, Lagos,{{Cite web|url=http://www.tundefashola.com/archives/news/2016/02/07/20160207N01.html|title=A Noble Nigerian in the Change Milleu}} before studying law at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) graduating with an LL.B in 1986 followed by a Bachelor of Laws from Nigerian Law School in 1987. He then achieved an LL.M through the University of Lagos in 1990.{{Cite web|url=https://www.medianigeria.com/biography-of-olasupo-shasore-san/|title = Biography of Olasupo Shasore, SAN|date = 7 June 2018}}
Career
He was called to the Nigerian Bar on 22 October 1987; became a member of the Inner Bar and conferred with the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in 2006; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (United Kingdom) 2007; former member of the Body of Benchers of Nigeria; Notary Public for Nigeria; President of the Lagos Court of Arbitration (LCA) (until January 2016); Chairman of the Lagos State Law Reform Commission (until 2015);{{Cite web|url=http://www.lawrecom.lg.gov.ng/comm.html|title=Lagos Law Reform|date=6 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130406045521/http://www.lawrecom.lg.gov.ng/comm.html|archive-date=6 April 2013}} member/secretary of the Presidential Petroleum Revenue Special Taskforce (2013); led Lagos State delegates at National Constitutional conference (2014).
As Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State, he led the review of the Criminal Code Law, and the Administration of Criminal Justice Law; authored and issued the first Prosecutors' Guidelines (2011); initiated the first African Regional Conference of the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP). Chaired the Mortgage and Property Law Reform Committee, which produced and recommended the Mortgage & Property Law (2009). He also authored the Home Ownership and Mortgage Policy (2011).{{cite web|title=Lagos Homs|url=http://www.lagoshoms.gov.ng/?u=d&dd=28|website=Lagos Homs|publisher=Lagos State Government|accessdate=28 November 2014}} He also initiated the policy and crafted the tenant friendly Tenancy Law of Lagos State, balancing the inequality between landlords and tenants.
Writings
He is also an historian and author; his recent books include Ministering Justice: Administration of Justice in Nigeria (Qbooks, 2019); Platter of Gold: Making Nigeria (2016), which inspired a seven-part docuseries titled Journey of an African Colony; Possessed – A History of Law & Justice in the Crown Colony of Lagos (2014);{{cite web|title=Supo Shasore releases 'Possessed'|url=http://artyliving.com/2014/11/07/supo-shasore-reads-possessed-at-terrakulture-this-saturday/|website=ArtyLiving|accessdate=28 November 2014}} Commercial Arbitration – Arbitration Law & International Practice in Nigeria (Lexis Nexis, 2011), Johnson and Shasore;{{cite web|url=http://www.tundefashola.com/archives/news/2012/05/18/20120518N01A.html|website=TundeFashola.com|accessdate=28 November 2014|title=Public Presentation of Commercial Arbitration Law and International Practice in Nigeria}} Jurisdiction & Sovereign Immunity in Nigerian Commercial Law (Practice and textbook) (2007, NIIA).
Personal life
Shasore is married with three children.
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Category:Obafemi Awolowo University alumni
Category:University of Lagos alumni
Category:Igbobi College alumni
Category:Attorneys general of Lagos State