Olasupo Shasore SAN is a founding partner of Africa Law Practice NG & Co, practising in commercial litigation, arbitration, maritime and shipping, and commercial crime. He was conferred with the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2006.

He served as Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Lagos State from 2007 to 2011, during which he led the review of the Criminal Code Law and the Administration of Criminal Justice Law, authored the State’s first Prosecutors’ Guidelines (2011) and initiated the Lagos Tenancy Law. He later chaired the Lagos State Law Reform Commission and served as President of the Lagos Court of Arbitration until January 2016.

SAN

2006

Called to the Bar

22 October 1987

Education

LL.B, University of Ife (1986); B.L., Nigerian Law School (1987); LL.M, University of Lagos (1990)

Appointments

Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State (2007 to 2011); Chairman, Lagos State Law Reform Commission; President, Lagos Court of Arbitration (to 2016); member and secretary, Presidential Petroleum Revenue Special Taskforce (2013); former member, Body of Benchers; Notary Public

Reported cases

Nigeria Advertising Services Ltd v UBA Plc (2005, Supreme Court); Maritime & General Assurance v Overseas Union (2006, Supreme Court); LADGROUP v WEMA Bank & ors (2004, Court of Appeal); Oluwalogbon v Government of the UK (2005, Court of Appeal), as lead counsel

Publications

Ministering Justice: Administration of Justice in Nigeria (2019); Platter of Gold: Making Nigeria (2016); Possessed: A History of Law and Justice in the Crown Colony of Lagos (2014); Commercial Arbitration: Arbitration Law and International Practice in Nigeria (LexisNexis, co-author); Jurisdiction and Sovereign Immunity in Nigerian Commercial Law (2007)

Memberships

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) (2007); LCIA Africa User Group; PRIME Finance panel; co-founder and first Vice-President, Maritime Arbitrators Association of Nigeria

Not yet verified: publication year of Commercial Arbitration (sources give 2011 and 2012); one source also associates him with Ajumogobia & Okeke, which conflicts with his ALP role.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · primefinancedisputes.org. Profile compiled 15 November 2026.