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The Executive Director, Legal Aid Board Sierra Leone, Mrs. Fatmata Claire Carlton-Hanciles, has held a very meaningful meeting with the Council of Tribal Heads in Sierra Leone. She noted that justice was not prevalent at the lower class in Sierra Leone and pointed out that most of the witnesses do not appear in the courts when cases are called. That, she said, has kept a lot of innocent people in jails without trial, thereby destroying their lives. The meeting witnessed the processing of seven youths released from different courts in Freetown. Six youths who were held for different crimes, ranging from wounding to larceny, were released at the High Court by Justice Sam Margai. Five were released on an application for a discharge for want of prosecution by Legal Aid Lawyers, Cecelia Tucker and Contract Lawyer who applied for the sixth one. A seventh was released by Justice Samba on an application for a discharge for want of prosecution made by Legal Aid Lawyer, Cheryl Blake....

The Legal Aid Board and the Attorney General has met with Civil Society organizations in Freetown. It was agreed that all Legal Aid Agencies should work hand in hand with the Board and the Office of the Attorney General to be able to create maximum impact. Effective monitoring of released prisoners, rampant police violation of people’s rights, and information shearing about the work of the Board, were of serious concern. The Attorney General called for total cooperation in the search for the symptoms of the problems in the judicial system, to be able to be able to inject the correct antidote to effectively clean up the judicial system.

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  The Legal Aid Board in concert with the Attorney General The Legal Aid Board in concert with the Attorney General has met with Civil Society organizations in Freetown. It was agreed that all Legal Aid Agencies should work hand in hand with the Board and the Office of the Attorney General to be able to create maximum impact in the judicial system. The Executive Director Mrs Claire Carlton-Hanciles said that the mandate of the Legal Aid Board is to bring Justice to the people at community level. She gave an insight to the formation of Citizens Advisory Bureaus in all wards in the country, to be championed by the Ward Councillor, and said that the Bureaus will be dealing with trivial matters in their communities to avoid overwhelming the police and the courts with such matters that could be dealt with at community level. The Attorney General called for total cooperation in the search for the symptoms of the problems in the judicial system, to be able to inject the corr...

T he Legal Aid Board Sierra Leone has held a sensitization meeting on the formation of Citizen’s Advisory Bureaus in all Wards in the Freetown municipality.  The meeting took place at the Mayor’s Parlor, Freetown City Council, Wallace Johnson Street. Present were the Mayor of Freetown and the 49 Councillors. Mrs Claire Fatmata Carlton Hanciles, Executive Director, Legal Aid Board Sierra Leone lauded the partnership between the Legal Aid Board and the Freetown City Council, for the Civil mandate they have to resolve issues, some of which are debt relief, land and tenant, and family and neighbourhood disputes. She spoke about the formation of Citizen’s Advisory Bureaus which will comprise retired senior citizens. The Bureaus Mrs Hanciles said, will conduct daily sessions to deal with these matters in their Wards. The Councillors, she said, would have to take the lead to maintain the Bureaus in their Wards, while the retired senior citizens who will be conducting the sessions, wi...

Legal Aid Board Sierra Leone has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Youth to foster a collaborative operation in the discharge of their activities in youth matters. The Minister of Youth Affairs, Alimamy A. Kamara, commended the Legal Aid Board for the colossal responsibility it carries and the vibrancy and speed with which the Board executes their duty and gives the ordinary Sierra Leonean access to justice, most of which are youths. The Minister spoke about the foreign attitude adopted by youths in Sierra Leone and the unchecked sale of cheap alcohol in small sachets, which he cited to have contributed immensely to the violence perpetrated by youths in the recent past. He pledged his ministry's support to build on solid structures to educate the Youths, one of which is to partner with the Legal Aid board, to create a platform on which the dynamos of state, who are the youths, will operate in peace, for better youthful living in Sierra Leone.  The Ex...