Qualified in 2011
Omololu has a professional approach to his work and a track record of litigation and advice in a wide range of crime and regulatory cases. He combines arbitration with his legal practice, and maintains a significant presence before the criminal, civil courts and tribunals, achieving success in the majority of his cases before the courts.
Crime and regulatory offences
Omolulu is familiar with all aspects of summary only offences and sentencing in the Magistrates Court. He accepts instructions to advise and represent commercial and private clients charged with a range of criminal and regulatory offences including business rates proceedings and a range of local authority prosecutions.
He is also regularly instructed to defend road traffic charges including speeding, driving under the influence, careless and dangerous driving, failure to furnish information and insurance offences. He also accepts instructions to deal with taxi licence appeals. Omolulu’s criminal and regulatory practice covers the following areas:
- Motoring offences
- Offences related to sex, drugs and violence
- Local authority prosecutions (e.g. licencing and business rates)
- Taxi Licence Appeals
- Regulatory offences (e.g. trading standards and health and safety)
- Plea and allocation issues
- Matters for sentencing and mitigation
- Appeals
He has defended in a wide range of cases resulting in acquittals for a significant number of them.
Background
Omololu is dual-qualified barrister in the UK and Nigeria and accepts instructions from clients based within the two jurisdictions. He had accumulated about five years of practice experience in commercial, civil and admiralty law in Nigeria before coming to the United Kingdom for further studies in 2009. He was part of the team in the landmark case that changed the scope of admiralty jurisdiction in Nigeria.
In recognition of his practice in Nigeria, Omololu was shortlisted in the preliminary list of shipping and maritime practitioners in Nigeria by the UK based publications “who’s who legal” in 2010. As a postgraduate student, Omololu volunteered for Citizens Advise Bureau, Swansea and still maintains links to them. After obtaining a masters degree in the UK, Omololu enrolled with the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple as a student member and was called to the English Bar in 2011 after completing the Bar Transfer Test. He undertook his pupillage in one of the leading set of chambers before joining Holborn Chambers in October 2013.
Omololu speaks Yoruba fluently and has a basic understanding of Welsh.
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