Edwin Speed

Edwin Speed
Chief Justice of Nigeria (en) 1914 - 1918
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	1870
Mutuwa	14 Disamba 1941
Karatu
Makaranta	Trinity College (en)
Sana'a

Sir Edwin Arney Speed (11 Maris 1869 - 14 Disamba 1941) shi ne Alkalin Alkalan Najeriya daga shekarar 1914 zuwa 1918. Lord Lugard Na matukar girmama shi wanda ya tabbatar da nada sa a matsayin Alkalin Alkalai na hadaddiyar yankin kariyar turawa na Kudancin Arewa ah nijeriya. Lugard ne ya dora masa alhakin hada kan dokokin kasashen biyu da kafa tsarin kotun koli da na lardi da na ‘yan kasa daya.

Rayuwa

An haifi Edward Arney Speed a watan Maris 1869, ya kasance dan Robert Henry Speed ne na Nottingham. Mahaifinsa lauya ne na Kotun Nottingham County. Ya karanta shari'a a Kwalejin Trinity, Cambridge inda ya sami LLB da MA An kira shi zuwa mashaya a watan Yuni 1893 kuma ya yi doka a cikin Midland Circuit kafin ya shiga aikin mulkin mallaka. An nada shi Hakimin Gundumar Gold Coast a 1899. A shekarar 1890, Speed aka nada shi Babban Atoni-Janar na mulkin mallaka na Legas da kuma a 1906, na Kudancin Najeriya inda ya kasance babban Lauyan Janar har zuwa 1908 kafin ya karbi mukamin Babban Jojin Arewacin Najeriya .

Dangane da hade yankunan Najeriya, Speed ya aiwatar da wasu sabbin dokokin shari'a wadanda suka jawo masa suka daga sassan lauyoyin Legas kuma saboda irin wadannan dokokin da kuma adawar da lauyoyi ke yi da sabbin dokokin, ba a tunanin ya yi suna irin na magabata. William Nicol da kuma Osborne .