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Brewery Boss Cor Honkoop Managing....The Courts in Sierra Leone Will Decide

The Sierra Leone Brewery Limited is currently in hot waters as the Company was yesterday served with a writ of sermons from the High Court of Sierra Leone, ordering the company to enter a defense before the court within fourteen days as at 1st February 2010 in response to a seven- count –charge slammed on it by the Plaintiff, Mr. Augustine Kpaka.

For Armed Robery Two Police Officers And Nine Others Charged To Court in Sierra Leone

IN THE COURTROOM
Posted by Unissa Bangura on Nov 25, 2009, 16:55

The entire vicinity of the Sierra Leone Law Court Building was yesterday as tense with security personnel, especially OSD officers whom many people were in sympathy with two of their colleagues, ASP Mohamed Bayoh Bangura and Sergeant Alimamy Kamara were jointly charged with nine others for allegedly engaging themselves in criminal activities within the Western Area.The accused persons whose names are contained in five different files were charged with Robbery and Aggravation, Robbery with Violence, Accessing to the fact, Conspiracy to commit felony and unlawful possession of fire arms.

Lawyer Solomon and Others For Sierra Leone High Court

IN THE COURTROOM
Posted by on Nov 13, 2009, 20:53
She is light skinned, hybrid short and has been in the legal profession for decades after graduating from a UK Law School. She is also a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Fourah Bay College where she has been impacting knowledge to successive students of law at Fourah Bay College where she made friends and enemies. At the Law Courts in Freetown, she knows all the corners and has represented more than twenty four dozens of litigants with diverse nature of cases.

Sierra Leone: Special Court Renders Final Judgment in RUF Case

IN THE COURTROOM
Posted by on Oct 26, 2009, 13:15

Former RUF Interim Leader Issa Hassan Sesay Flanked By Security Guards

Amnesty International said today’s decision by the Special Court for Sierra Leone to uphold the convictions of three former senior leaders of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) is a positive step in the fight against impunity for the worst crimes committed during the country’s eleven-year civil war.

Magistrate Harding Angers Bombali District Elders

IN THE COURTROOM
Posted by on Sep 17, 2009, 20:39
Some members of the Bombali District, Northern Province and the Bombali District Human Rights Committee have commenced an action that would not augur well against Magistrate Emmanuelle Harding of the Makeni Court. There are wide speculations that if both the Chief Justice, Madam Humu Tejan Jalloh and the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Serry Kamal fail to treat the issues raised in a press release

Justice Betrayed....Complainant Mother Weeps Openly In Sierra Leone Court

IN THE COURTROOM
Posted by on Sep 11, 2009, 22:49

Chief Justice Humu Tejan Jalloh...Must Act Now

Whether the Chief Justice of Sierra Leone Madam Humu Tejan Jalloh should run a mini orientation class for some Magistrates to realize that the eyes of the public are widely open, looking at them to see how they dispense justice irrespective of class, race, status and region or should leave them to continue betraying justice because they have the license to do so should be another food for thought for her.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor "Arms Entered Liberia Without My Knowledge"

IN THE COURTROOM
Posted by on Sep 1, 2009, 01:02
Former Liberian President, Charles Taylor said arms could have entered Liberia without his knowledge. A Former Liberian Special Security Service, SSS, Officer in Charles Taylor’s government testified in 2008 that he and the Former Liberian President were cannibals. But in his testimonies on Monday, Mr. Taylor disowned Mr Joseph Zigzag Marzah. Mr. Taylor has accused the current Liberian President

Financial Predicament Grips Human Rights Commission...Commissioners Demand House Rent

IN THE COURTROOM
Posted by ABU BAKARR KARGBO on Jul 13, 2009, 12:33
The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone which is tasked with the responsibility of monitoring human right activities in the country is presently being greeted with a grave financial crisis which if nothing is done will lead to the Institution's collapse

Melron Nicol-Wilson And the Struggle for Human Rights in Sierra Leone

IN THE COURTROOM
Posted by on Jun 24, 2009, 16:30
Melron Nicol-Wilson long workdays begin at 8 a.m. As many as 20 people are often waiting outside the small office of the Lawyers Centre for Legal Assistance (LAWCLA) in Sierra Leone’s Capital, Freetown. They are refugees and war-displaced Sierra Leoneans, young victims of child abuse and the elder, disabled and the unemployed

The Supreme Court Of Sierra Leone: A National Disgrace Or the Bulwark of Our Civil Liberties?

IN THE COURTROOM
Posted by on Jun 24, 2009, 06:34
The Supreme Court of Sierra Leone is the Highest Court of the land as provided for by the 1991 Constitution and the final court of appeal from which there can be no further appeals. In layman’s terms the decision of the Supreme Court is final. The nature of the finality of the Supreme Court’s decision is one that such decisions must not only be accurate on the legal issues raised

Lawyer Jenkins Johnston Blasts Supreme Court Judges So What is “A Constitutional Issue”?

IN THE COURTROOM
Posted by on Jun 24, 2009, 06:27
In exercise of the powers conferred on me by Section 144 (2) of the Criminal Procedure Act No. 32 of 1965 as repealed and replaced by Section 3 of the Criminal Procedure Act No. 11 of 1981, I hereby apply for an Order that ADRIAN JOSCELYNE FISHER who stands charged with Soliciting and Accepting an Advantage contrary to Section 8 (1) 9a) of the Anti-Corruption Act 2000 (As amended) Be Tried by Judge alone instead of Judge and Jury

In Defence of the Anti-Corruption Commission of Sierra Leone on the Arrest of Justice A. B. Halloway

IN THE COURTROOM
Posted by Sierra Leonean Guest Contributor on Jun 17, 2009, 17:02
It is baffling that the Sierra Leone Bar Association (SLBA) should be aggrieved by the conduct of the Anti-Corruption Commission for the arrest of Honourable Justice A. B. Halloway at his chambers on June 8. The question that readily comes to mind would

3 Freed, 15 May Go to Jail....As Sierra Leone Braces For Cocaine Case Verdict

IN THE COURTROOM
Posted by on Apr 20, 2009, 10:31
If Justice Nicholas Browne Marke goes strictly according to the Anti Drug Act, all those that would be found guilty under the act will be sentenced to life imprisonment. The Act makes provision for both fine and jail term. It would be the discretion of the presiding judge to decide what penalty each of the accused would carry. Already, three out of the eighteen accused persons charged to court have been acquitted and discharged. They are Ebenezer Adetunji Macauley, Badara Allieu Tarawalley and Martha Pinieres.

Legal Wrestler Knocks Down 60-Year-Old Law Veteran in Sierra Leone Court : Judge Awards Cost of Le250, 000

IN THE COURTROOM
Posted by on Apr 9, 2009, 10:04
For the second time in a two-straight knock-out legal wrestling encounter, Lawyer Leon Jenkins Johnston (Jr) has subdued his opponent, a PhD holder in Constitutional Law, who served in the APC government of the late Joseph Momoh as Minister of Development, but was asked to take his exit for reasons the government did not make known to the public. Dr. Bu-Buakei Jabbie, whose recent action as viewed by observers of the court and a cross section

Sierra Leone's Attorney General Fast Becoming a Liability to the APC Government

IN THE COURTROOM
Posted by on Mar 25, 2009, 10:30
The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abdul Serry Kamal appears to be a roller bogey man, dancing within the confines of his office and pretending to be a good dancer when evidence abounds that he is more or less another state comedian. Comedy is not a requisite for good governance, but the Attorney General and Minister of Justice wants to convince his admirers and audience that it is an ingredient of good governance

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