*Dear Sierra Leonean-Trained Legal Practitioners: This Is Your Moment* By Oumar Farouk Sesay When the Sierra Leone Law School was established in the late 1980s, amid opposition from some members […]
THE BAR, THE BENCH AND THE TEST OF JUSTICE By Mahmud Tim Kargbo Friday, 9 October 2026 A courtroom dispute has become a test of judicial authority, professional restraint and public confidence in justice […]
CHIEF JUSTICE KAMANDA’S DECISION ON JFK: IF NOT HANDLED PROPERLY, IT COULD DEEPEN POLITICAL TENSIONS AND THREATEN SIERRA LEONE’S NATIONAL STABILITY By Haroun Olu Zubairu The detention of Joseph Fitzgerald […]
WHEN JUSTICE BECOMES A POLITICAL WEAPON JFK’s Detention, Judicial Independence and Sierra Leone’s Constitutional Crossroads By Gibril Bangura Sierra Leone is facing a defining constitutional test. The detention of Hon. Joseph […]
By Kabs Kanu Chief Justice Judge Komba Kamanda today ordered the arrest of former Attorney General and Minister of Justice , Lawyer Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara ( JFK) for the tense […]
Another big political drama broke out in Freetown yesterday , this time between the Supreme Court and the lead attorney of the opposition All People’s Congress ( APC ) , […]
WHEN DEVELOPMENT FINANCE BECOMES LEVERAGE* By Mahmud Tim Kargbo Friday, 2 October 2026 The European Union’s decision to withhold Sierra Leone’s 2026 budget support has suddenly acquired a far more […]
𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐁𝐄 𝐀 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐔𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐚𝐲𝐨𝐡 𝐊𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐚 (𝟎𝟕𝟕𝟔𝟐𝟐𝟓𝟎𝟏) President Julius Maada Bio’s decision to withhold assent to the controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill […]
WHEN POWER MEETS THE CONSTITUTION: SIERRA LEONE IS WATCHING By Emmanuel Swarray Today, Sierra Leone will watch. Not merely because Parliament, the Executive and political parties have a profound interest […]
THE CONSTITUTION AT THE BAR By Mahmud Tim Kargbo Tuesday, 6 October 2026 Sierra Leone’s constitutional amendment dispute has reached the Supreme Court, with a basic question at its centre: did Parliament use […]
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