Celebrating Hairat Aderinsola Balogun’s 55th Anniversary of her Call to the Bar
Mrs. Hairat Aderinsola Balogun (nee Alatishe), is an Officer of the Order of the Niger, Barrister-at-Law of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, Life Bencher, Nigeria, and Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Monday, 5th February, 2018 marked the first of three significant dates this year that launched a 55-year career of distinguished and meritorious legal practice defending and promoting the rights of her Clients, her State, her Profession, her Country, and her Continent.
February 5th, 1963 July 13th, 1963 July 15th, 1963
- Call to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn, UK - Call to the Nigerian Bar - Commencement of Legal Practice
Mrs Hairat Balogun has recorded many FIRSTS in her career.
State Benchers,
the International Bar Association,
She served her continent, spending two years as the OAU Observer to the Lockerbie trials in the Scottish Court at Camp Zeist, Netherlands and the Scottish Courts in Edinburgh. She served her country as a member of “The Transition to Civil Rule Tribunal” in 1987 by the then Military the Anti-corruption Commission. She served exhibit obedience by the Executive to the rule of law and court orders, as shown in of the Nigerian Bar Association, and Council Member of the International Bar Association. She served her Society as a former President of Rotary Club of Lagos, and member of humanitarian and social organisations, such as Soroptimist International.
As a legal practitioner in private practice, Mrs Balogun has inspired many men and women through personal example of successfully using judicial means to take on the establishment to protect her own rights, and the rights of those without a voice. She also embodies the decorum required in the legal profession, and the saying that “you do not need a title to be a leader”.
From the lowest to the highest ranks of the profession and the judiciary, she is fondly acknowledged as a fair, yet uncompromising arbiter for legal etiquette, dignity and decorum, the observation of which she will enforce.
Mrs Hairat Balogun has published two books; a national research book entitled ‘Women in the Law’ in 2009 documenting the motivations, experiences, and challenges of Women Lawyers in Nigeria; and her Law Memoirs, ‘To Serve in Truth and Justice’ in 2011 documenting her introduction to the profession, and sharing details and lessons from her half-century in practice