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Chief Justice Of Sierra Leone
The Supreme Court of Sierra Leone is the highest court in Sierra Leone. It has final jurisdiction in all civil, criminal, and constitutional cases within Sierra Leone, and its decisions cannot be appealed. The Supreme Court has the exclusive constitutional power to overturn ruling of lower courts within the jurisdiction of Sierra Leone. The Supreme Court, along with the Court of Appeals, High Court of Justice, and magistrate courts form the Judicial branch of the Government of Sierra Leone. Prior to 1971, there was a right of appeal from the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, England. The Supreme Court of Sierra Leone consists of Supreme Court justices, headed by the Chief Justice. The Judges are nominated by the President of Sierra Leone and must be confirmed by the Parliament of Sierra Leone by at least 60% majority vote in order to take offic The Supreme Court building, known as Law Court, is located on Siaka Stevens St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra Leone has a tropical climate, with diverse environments ranging from savanna to rainforests. The country has a population of 7,092,113 as of the 2015 census. The capital and largest city is Freetown. The country is divided into five administrative regions, which are subdivided into Districts of Sierra Leone, 16 districts. Sierra Leone is a constitutional republic with a unicameral parliament and a directly elected executive president, president serving a five-year term with a maximum of two terms. The current president is Julius Maada Bio. Sierra Leone is a Secular state, secular nation with Constitution of Sierra Leone, the constitution providing for the separation of state and religion and freedom of conscience (which includes freedom of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siaka Stevens Street
Siaka may refer to the following people: ;Given name *Siaka Bagayoko (born 1998), Malian football defender *Siaka Bamba (born 1989), Ivorian football midfielder *Siaka Son (born 1980), Burkinabé sprinter *Siaka Stevens (1905–1988), leader of Sierra Leone *Siaka Stevens (Ghanaian politician) *Siaka Tiéné (born 1982), Ivorian footballer *Siaka Touré (1935–1985), Guinean military commander ;Surname *Dagno Siaka (born 1987), Ivorian footballer * Lega Siaka (born 1992), Papua New Guinean cricketer *Pauke Siaka (born 1986), Papua New Guinean cricketer {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrose Henry Webb
Sir Ambrose Henry Webb (13 August 1882 – 19 May 1964) was an Irish barrister and jurist who served in various positions in the British colonial empire. Early years Ambrose Henry Webb was born on 13 August 1882 in Tashinny, County Longford, Ireland. His parents were Charles Alexander Webb (1849–1916), land agent of Park Place, Tashinny, and Louisa Maria Bole (1855–1916). He was the older brother of Samuel Cecil Webb, who was killed in action on 3 October 1916, and of Hubert Webb, who became a veterinarian in Barnstaple, England. Webb became an Irish barrister in 1909. He married Agnes Ellen Gunn, younger daughter of Michael Ralph Thomas Gunn, the builder and owner of the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin and his actress wife Barbara Elizabeth Johnstone, who used the stage name Bessie Sudlow. Colonial career Webb joined the Colonial Legal Service. He was first appointed to the judicial department of Palestine on 29 January 1921. In 1921 he was president of the Samaria (Nablus) distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Graham Paul
Sir George Graham Paul (15 November 1887 – 1960), also known as Graham Paul or G. G. Paul, was a British jurist who served in the colonial administration in Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Tanganyika. Early years On 12 October 1906 it was reported that Mr George Graham Paul, son of Mr George Brodie Paul, solicitor, Dundee, had qualified as M.A. of the University of St Andrews. Paul became a member of the Scottish Faculty of Advocates, a handicap in his legal career since Scots law is unique to Scotland. Despite this, he did well in the colonial judicial system. Colonial judiciary Nigeria In 1928 G Graham Paul was appointed an unofficial member of the Nigerian Legislative Council by governor Graeme Thomson. Paul represented the commercial interests of Calabar. During the Women's War of 1929, on 16 December 1929 British troops fired into a crowd of women protesters calling for democracy in Okigwe, killing 47 women and injuring 31. In January 1930 Paul was a member of the Aba Commissio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballina Herald , a surname
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Ballina may refer to: *Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland *Ballina, County Tipperary, Ireland *Ballina, New South Wales, Australia **Electoral district of Ballina, an electoral district in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, based in the area ** Ballina Shire, a local government area of which Ballina is the largest town and the administrative centre * Ballina, a location south of Cazenovia, Madison County, New York, US See also * Balina Balina is a surname. People with that name include: * Aloysius Balina Aloysius Balina (21 January 1945 – 6 November 2012) was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shinyanga, Tanzania. Born in Isoso and ordained to the priesthood on 21 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paget Bourke
Sir Paget John Bourke, SC (1906 – 7 November 1983) was an Irish barrister and British colonial judge who served as chief justice of Sierra Leone and Cyprus . Biography The son of H.C. Bourke, of Amana, Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland, Bourke was educated at Mount St Mary's College, Chesterfield, and at Trinity College, Dublin (Mod. BA, LLB). He was called to the Irish Bar at King's Inns in 1928. He joined the Colonial Legal Service as Legal Adviser and Crown Prosecutor in the Seychelles in 1933, where he was a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils. He then served in Palestine, as a Chief Magistrate in 1936 and Relieving President of a District Court in 1941, and President of a District Court in 1945. He was then a Judge of Supreme Court of Kenya in 1946, Chief Justice of Sierra Leone from 1955 to 1957; Chief Justice of Cyprus from 1957 to 1960. He was called to the English Bar at Gray's Inn in 1957, and was knighted the same year. On his retirement from the Colon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gershon Collier
Gershon Beresford Onesimus Collier (February 16, 1927 – May 25, 1994) was a Sierra Leone Creole diplomat, chief justice of Sierra Leone and educator. His granddaughter is WNBA player Napheesa Collier. Career *He was called to the English Bar at the Middle Temple Inns of Court, London. *When Albert Margai left the Sierra Leone People's Party in 1958, Gershon Collier was one of the supporters and was a member of that People's National Party's first executive committee. *In 1961, he became Sierra Leone's first permanent representative to the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City. * On October 16, 1963, he was designated concurrently ambassador in Washington, D.C. war he was concurrently accredited from , until . *He got in contact with Gamal Abdel Nasser who became Godparent of his son Gamal. *In 1967, Albert Margai arranged his nomination as chief justice of Sierra Leone. *However, Albert Margai lost the election in 1967 and Collier lost his office as chief justic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banja Tejan-Sie
Sir Banja Tejan-Sie (1917-2000) was the Governor General of Sierra Leone and one of the "founding fathers" of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). He was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen, with the most distinguished Order - The Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, GCMG. Tejan-Sie was born in Moyamba District (in the current Southern Province) to a famous Muslim cleric and scholar from the Fulah tribe. Tejan-Sie was educated at the Bo School and the Prince of Wales School before continuing his education at the London School of Economics and Lincoln's Inn, where he was called to the bar in 1951. Political career In 1951, Tejan-Sie lost an election for a seat in the Parliament; despite this he was appointed as one of the two National Vice Presidents of the SLPP in 1953. However, in 1957, after losing his second election, Tejan-Sie began a career in the judiciary. In 1962, he was elected to the position made empty in the legislature of Speaker of the House by S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Okoro Cole
Christopher Elnathan Okoro Cole, CMG OBE (April 17, 1921 – 1990) was a Sierra Leonean politician. He served as Governor-general and President of Sierra Leone for 1 day in 1971. Cole was appointed officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1965 for "Public services as minister without portfolio" and inducted as a companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1973. Early life Cole was born to Creole parents at Waterloo, Sierra Leone, then a British colony. He studied at Seventh Day Adventist School Waterloo, Buxton Memorial School, Freetown, C.M. S.G.S. He attended London School of Economics and London University. He graduated LLB. In 1946 Cole entered the Bar at The Middle Temple. From 1946–1951 he worked in private practice in Sierra Leone. From 1947–1951 he served as part-time lecturer in law. Department of Economic Studies, F.B.C. Career He worked as the City Solicitor.; Police Supreme Courts 1952. Commissioner of Oaths. Crown Counsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desmond Luke
Desmond Edgar Fashole Luke (6 October 1935 – 27 February 2021)Lans Gberie"Desmond Luke: A Profile in Courage" ''The Patriotic Vanguard'' (Sierra Leone), 13 January 2011. was a former politician and lawyer in Sierra Leone. Luke served as foreign minister (1973–75), Minister of Health (1977–78), and ambassador to the West Germany (1969–73), France (1971–73) and the European Economic Community (1971–73) at various points in his political career. Luke competed in the 1996 presidential election against several other candidates, eventually losing to current President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah after only receiving 1.1% of the vote in the initial round of voting. In March 1998, Luke was appointed to replace Samuel Beccles-Davies as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Luke retired from that position in 2002. He was an alumnus of Cambridge University and Oxford University. Luke was a strong supporter of Kabbah's government-in-exile after the 1997 coup by Johnny Paul Koroma. Early l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ade Renner Thomas
Aderemi Raymond Desmond Renner-Thomas (born 7th September 1945- 17th November, 2022) was a former Chief Justice of Sierra Leone. An ethnic Creole, Thomas was born and raised in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital. He later obtained a PhD in land law. In 2005, he was appointed to the position of chief justice by former president, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. In 2008 Renner-Thomas retired as chief justice. The president Ernest Bai Koroma Ernest Bai Koroma (born 2 October 1953) is a Sierra Leonean politician who served as the fourth President of Sierra Leone from 17 September 2007 to 4 April 2018. Born and raised in Makeni in northern Sierra Leone, Koroma spent more than 24 ... appointed Umu Hawa Tejan Jalloh as his successor. He currently works as a lawyer in Freetown. He passed away on the 17th November, 2022. Ade has been married to Jennifer Renner-Thomas (''née'' Bankole-Jones) for over 40 years. In 1988 they had twin girls Janine Renner-Thomas and Jacqueline Renner-Thomas, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh
Haja Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh, GCOR (born April 16, 194 is a Sierra Leonean lawyer who was the first female Chief Justice of Sierra Leone from 2008 to 2015. Early life and background She was born on April 16, 194and grew up in the Sierra Leonean capital Freetown to Muslim parents from the Fula ethnic group, originally from Koinadugu District in the north part of Sierra Leone. Like her parents, Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh is also a Muslim, unlike her great grandmother on the maternal side who was a Methodist Christian hailed from Koya Chiefdom (then Koya Kingdom) in the Port Loko District. She is the older sister of Sierra Leonean diplomat Sulaiman Tejan-Jalloh. Jalloh's mother was the President of the Sierra Leone National Fullah Women’s Association for twenty six years; and her father served in the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |