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Reports
The Prosecution case against Charles Taylor - Jun 30, 2009 - 9:11:53 AM
Charles Taylor, born in Liberia in 1948, was head of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), an organised armed group in the late 1980’s. In 1985 he escaped from an American prison in Massechusset where he had been detained as a result of allegations that he had embezzled funds in his role as Director of the General Services Agency in Sierra Leone.
News
SLCMP News Briefs - Jun 30, 2009 - 8:55:21 AM
Binta Mansaray has been appointed by the UN Secretary General to act as registrar of the Special Court for Sierra Leone until a new appointment is made follwing the resignation of Herman Von Herbel who is now working for the Lebanon Tribunal in The Hague. Ms. Mansaray is the substantive Deputy Registrar of the court.
Reports
The Role of Civil Society in the Fight against Corruption in Sierra Leone - Jun 30, 2009 - 8:51:44 AM
Corruption has proven to be a major stumbling block in establishing an effective and modern state in Sierra Leone and constitutes a primary reason for Sierra Leone’s low development when compared to other states. However, an attempt to provide a single definition for corruption will encounter legal, criminological and political problems.
Commentaries
The Need for Diversion in the Juvenile Justice System in Sierra Leone - Jun 30, 2009 - 8:47:40 AM
Diversion, in simple terms, refers to a measure for dealing with a child offender other than taking that child to court. Over the years, it has been observed that the police and juvenile courts make very little use of diversionary methods in dealing with children who come into conflict with the law. This has resulted in children being incarcerated for minor offences that could have been settled at home or even at the police station.
Commentaries
Stories from the Field: Enforced Judgments- A Necessity for Native Administrative Courts - Jun 30, 2009 - 8:42:47 AM
Court proceedings in both civil matters and criminal cases are mostly laid to rest with the passing of judgement. Once the court has reached its decision, it is mandatory for the court officials to ensure the enforcement of those decisions for fair dispensation of justice. The litigants are also obliged under the law to respect the judgment made by honouring whatever fine or punishment imposed by the court. Yet what most often occurs in the local courts of Bo is contrary to best practise: it is fast becoming habit for court officials in the Native Administrative (NA) Courts I and II in Bo to fail in the enforcement of judgments passed in court.
Newsletters
37th Edition of the Official Newsletter of the Sierra Leone Court Monitoring Programme - Jun 29, 2009 - 3:58:30 PM
37th Edition of the Official Newsletter of the Sierra Leone Court Monitoring Programme
Reports
Special Court Issues Judgment for Convicts in the RUF Case - Apr 19, 2009 - 9:53:57 AM
On 8th April 2009, Trial Chamber I of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) before Justice Pierre Boutet presiding, Bankole Thompson and Benjamin Muntanga Itoe being the other justices, issued the Chamber’s final set of judgments in the case of former leaders of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) Issa Hassan Sesay, Morris Kallon aka Bilai Karim and Augustine Gbao aka Augustine Bao.
Commentaries
Repairing War Victims in Sierra Leone: Some Underlying Challenges in the Reparations Programme - Apr 19, 2009 - 9:49:20 AM
The Sierra Leone reparations program was an outcome of the Lome Peace Agreement of July 1999 and the recommendations of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation and Commission Report published in July 2004. The Commission recommended, among other things, that a reparations program be established to provide redress to victims of human rights violations suffered during the eleven year war; a war that was characterised by egregious violations of human rights particularly against the civilian population with women and children suffering the most.
News
Anti Corruption News - Apr 19, 2009 - 9:44:56 AM
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has dropped allegations of soliciting advantage contrary to law made by various parties on Magistrate Abubakarr Binneh Kamara. The Commission dropped the allegations following the conclusion of an investigation which produced little or insufficient evidence of reported issues.
Articles
Stories from the Field: The Need to Popularize the Child Rights Act in Rural Communities - Apr 19, 2009 - 9:41:15 AM
Children, they say, are the next generation of leaders in any nation and therefore should be treated with the utmost care, attention and protection by older members of their various communities.
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