Profile description
Omololu has a professional approach to his work and a track record of litigation and advice in a wide range of family, criminal, civil, commercial and maritime cases. He combines arbitration with his legal practice. As a newly qualified barrister, Omololu successfully defended in a Closure Order Proceedings spanning three days before the magistrates Court.
Civil litigation
Omololu accepts instructions to advise and represent clients in relation to a variety of civil proceedings in the County Court and the High Court. The lion's share of his civil litigation practice falls within the following core areas:
- Business and Commercial Law
- Contract and money/debt claims
- Property and Housing
- Landlord & Tenant Law (possession and repossession claims)
- Bankruptcy & Insolvency
- Personal Injury (incl. RTA claims)
He is open to instructions on maritime and shipping law having practiced admiralty law extensively in Nigeria for a substantial period and obtained a master degree in International Maritime Law from a prestigious university in the UK.
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
- Immigration offences
- Cash forfeiture and asset seizure
- Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA)
He has defended in a wide range of cases resulting in acquittals for a significant number of them.
Family law
Omololu accepts instructions to advise and represent clients in the field of family law with an emphasis on contested Children Act proceedings. His experience of criminal advocacy lends itself very well to his family law practice; he can be relied upon to provide robust representation in contested fact-findings and Final Hearings.
Omololu's family practice typically includes cases featuring the following issues:
- Child Arrangement Orders
- Allegations of:
- Domestic violence
- Substance abuse
- Sexual abuse
- Fact-finding hearings
- Prohibited Steps Orders
- Specific Issue Orders
- Enforcement Applications
- Parental Responsibility
- Non-molestation and Occupation Orders
Omololu also has extensive experience of cases involving allegations of domestic violence and substance abuse with heavy social services and CAFCASS involvement; and is frequently instructed to represent clients in fact-finding hearings. Omololu is also happy to advise and represent clients in relation to injunctive proceedings before the family courts such as applications for non-molestation orders and occupation orders. He will represent both applicants and respondents throughout these proceedings from without notice applications right through to final hearings.
Divorce and Ancillary relief (Matrimonial Finance)
In relation to matrimonial finance proceedings, Omololu accepts instructions to represent clients throughout the whole process, from FDA, FDR to Final Hearings, including interim application hearings.
Immigration law
Omololu accepts instructions to advise and represent clients in relation to a variety of immigration proceedings including appeals and immigration bail applications. He has successfully persuaded the Immigration Appeal tribunal to apply the “exceptional circumstances rule” and “the proportionality rule” to a number of cases on appeal against decisions of the Home Office refusing leave to remain. He is often instructed to appear in the First Tier Tribunal.
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.
Notable Cases
- R v. Sibley (Closure Order Proceedings before the magistrates’ court)
- T & Anr. v. S.S.H.D (Persuaded the Immigration Tribunal to apply exceptional circumstances rule)
- OO v. S.S.H.D (Persuaded the Immigration Appeal Tribunal to apply the proportionality test to an appeal)
Other works
- Member, Royal Connections (charity organisation)
- General Secretary, Royal Men Fellowship
- Volunteer Adviser, Citizens Advice Bureau
https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/omololu-thomas/17/483/19a
Languages: English (Fluent)
Yoruba (Fluent)
Welsh (Basic)
