LLB (Hons): ACIArb; MEI; Solicitor of the Supreme Courts of Nigeria, England and Wales.

Andrew Onyearu is the Senior Partner of ANDREWS SOLICITORS. A 1984 graduate of the University of Nigeria, he was called to the Nigerian Bar in August 1985. After 3 years of legal practice in various areas of litigation and commercial work, he returned to the United Kingdom in 1988. He worked and was articled at Fremont & Co, a West End firm of solicitors with whom he remained until late November 1993 when he was admitted. In early 1994 he joined G Houghton & Son, an East London firm of solicitors established in 1843. He is primarily a general civil litigator with considerable experience of commercial; property and matrimonial litigation. He is a member of the Law Society of England’s Family Law Panel and is listed in the Law Society’s Directory of Foreign Law Experts as an expert in Nigerian Law, an area in which he is one of the leading practicing experts in the United Kingdom. He is also a member of the International Bar Association; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Society of Expert Witnesses and the Energy Institute. He has an active interest in Sports Law and is licensed by the English Football Association as a Player’s Agent. He has acted and continues to act for individuals, corporate and charitable organisations in the United Kingdom and Nigeria especially in cross-border litigation arising from both countries. He has been involved in the following cases as lead solicitor.

Selected Cases

Aniagwu – v – London Borough of Hackney [1999] 1RLR 303 (EAT)

Samuels – v – Commissioner of Police (decision of the Court of Appeal dated 3rd March 1999/Reported in Legal Action June 1999

R – v – Southwark Borough Council ex p Anderson 32 HLR 96 (decision of Moses, J QBD dated 11th February 1999) Reported in Legal Action, July 1999

R – v- Southwark Borough Council ex p Tafili Court of Appeal (unreported)

R – V – Secretary of State, Home Department ex p Benson Isiocha 2000 Imm App Reports 404

AIC Ltd – V --- Federal Government of Nigeria 2003 EWHC 1357

Abdullahi –v- Mudashiru 2003 All E R (D) 477

R(Fatima Haqq) V Inner West London Coroner and anor QBD Admin Ct (Gibbs.J) 18 December 2003

Murphy Shipping –v- Burt and anor BLD1811044878 ChD (Blackburne.J) 17th November 2004

Norwich City Council –v-Famuyiwa 2004 EWCA Civ 1770 CA