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JSDP office Manager-Hilary Lajaku-Williams married Sia Mbayo at the Regent Road Baptist Church, Freetown on the 10th of October, 2009. Senior management and staff of JSDP and British Council Sierra Leone joined the families and friends of Hilary and Sia in the celebrations at both the church and a grand reception at the British Council auditorium . We wish Mr and Mrs Hilary Lajaku-Williams a happy married life.
The Judiciary launched a Bail Policy on Friday October 2nd 2009 at the High Court No.1, Law Courts Building in Freetown followed by a workshop that continued on Saturday.
The ceremony was chaired by Justice Mary Sye who illustrated the vividly a case that is currently on trial in Nigeria involving bank executives.
Justice Tolla Thompson highlighted critical and specific areas of the policy-credibility of sureties for example that needed attention.
The Chief Justice Honourable Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh who officially launched the policy thanked JSDP for support the launch of the policy .
The Freetown City Council, the City of Hull and the Justice Sector Development Programme (JSDP), on Tuesday 8th September hosted a ceremony to hand over Law books at the High Court Number 1 in the Law Courts Building, Freetown.
Attendees included the Honourable Chief Justice Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh; Justice Eku Roberts, a judge in the Court of Appeal (Chairman of the occasion); the Deputy Mayor of Freetown, Mr. Gibril Kanu (performed the official presentation); the Coordinator of the Justice Sector Coordination Office, Mrs. Olayinka Creighton-Randall (welcomed guests); Mr. Francis Mason (represented City of Hull); Administration of Justice Component Manager of JSDP-Mr. Alpha Jalloh and other members of the justice sector including the press.
The need for law books in the country became apparent due to the damage inflicted by the eleven-year civil war in which Law libraries in the country were not spared. In 2009, a team from the Hull City Council (United Kingdom) whilst on a visit in Sierra Leone assessed the need and demand for books by law libraries. On the team return to Hull, an appeal was made to legal practitioners in the United Kingdom (UK) who generously donated a total of 3,500 law books valued at £140,000. These law books will restock the law libraries in Sierra Leone including the High Court , the Ministry of Justice, Sierra Leone Law School, Fourah Bay College Faculty of Law and provincial law libraries.
JSDP, at the request of the Hull City Council facilitated the shipment of these Law Books from the UK to Sierra Leone and subsequent distribution to the aforementioned Libraries. This is as part of JSDP’s multi-sectoral approach, working with all stakeholders who have a part to play in enhancing accessible and affordable justice, both within government and civil society.
The donated books include complete sets of Halsbury’s Laws of England, Aitkin’s Court Forms, Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents, Halsbury’s Statutory Instruments and copies of leading English practitioners’ law books; plus a wide selection of text books including company, commercial, family and land law.
Due to the close relationship between the legal systems in Sierra Leone and the UK and owing to the fact that judicial case law is frequently cited as a persuasive authority in the Sierra Leone Courts, the books, though relating to the English Law, will nonetheless be of immense value to the Sierra Leone legal community.
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