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DISCHARGE FOR TODAY

Today LAB has secured the discharge of two inmates who were remanded at the Pademba Road Correctional Center for one year seven months. they were charged for Robbery.

Dr Valdimir D. Momcilovich of the European Union Visits Legal Aid Board Sierra Leone

Dr Valdimir D. Momcilovich Esq has on behalf of the European Union, paid a fact finding visit to the Legal Aid Board at their offices, first floor, Guma Building, Lamina Sankoh Street in Freetown. Dr Valdimir Momcilivich said that Brussels wanted to know what the situation was at the Legal Aid Board and on Pro bono matters in Sierra Leone; what the Legal Aid Board was doing, their needs and challenges, strategies to improve and access to support. The Legal Programme Manager, Mr. Ivan Sesay, informed The European Union Envoy that as a result of the war, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission was formed. It was during the deliberations that it was revealed that the war came about as a result of injustice perpetrated by the then judicial system; the lacked access to justice because the people were too poor to afford legal representation. It was revealed that most of the rebels were ex-convicts, so it was concluded by His Excellency the President that the provision of Legal A

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