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| Momodou |
Posted - 07 Feb 2017 : 20:04:18
WHO IS QUALIFIED TO BE APPOINTED AS CHIEF JUSTICE?
Foroyaa: February 7, 2017
QUESTION OF THE DAY
http://www.foroyaa.gm/archives/14294
In the past, the appointment of judges provided by the Commonwealth or friendly countries like Nigeria on the basis of bilateral or multilateral cooperation agreements has made it difficult to have substantive holders of the Office of Chief Justice. Consequently, many judges leave as soon as their contracts end.
The challenge before President Barrow, which will enable him to make history, is to appoint a Chief Judge who will remain in office until he or she attains pensionable age as provided by Section 141 (4) of the Constitution on the Tenure of office of judges which states:
“The Chief Justice, a Justice of the Supreme Court, the of Appeal and the High Court and members of the Special Criminal court may only be removed from office for inability to perform the functions of his or her judicial office, whether arising from infirmity of body or mind, or for misconduct.”
He will make history if he appoints a Gambian as a substantive holder of the post and give him or her all the protection to ensure his or her independence.
The qualifications required to be Chief Justice states in section 139(1):
“A person shall be qualified for appointment as Chief Justice if he or she is qualified to be appointed a judge of the Supreme Court and has been a judge of a superior court in a common law country for not less than ten years.” |
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| toubab1020 |
Posted - 10 Feb 2017 : 19:38:11
If Kofi Annan has selected Hassan Boubacarr Jallow for appointment to office in the past he must be good,no one can say that he should not have been selected by President Barrow for high office. |
| Momodou |
Posted - 10 Feb 2017 : 10:47:06
By Sainey K Marenah
Just in!
President Barrow Pick Former UN Prosecutor as Chief Justice!!!
President Adama Barrow has appointed Hassan Boubacarr Jallow as the new Chief Justice of Gambia, Coalition government sources told me.
Justice Jallow, was the Former United Nations Chief Prosecutor of Arusha based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Former Yugoslavia and has in-depth knowledge and experience of both local and international law having serve as Justice minster in former PPP government.
He previously served as a judge at Gambia Surpreme court.
Jallow studied law at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, the Nigerian Law School, and University College London. In 1982, he was appointed the Solicitor General of the Gambia. He was Attorney General and Minister of Justice for the Gambia from 1984 to 1994, and in 1998 he was appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court of the Gambia.
In 1998, the United Nations Secretary-General appointed Jallow to serve as an international legal expert and carry out a judicial evaluation of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia.
Jallow was a member of the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal and in 2002 he became a judge of the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. In 2003, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan selected Jallow and the United Nations Security Council approved him as the prosecutor of the ICTR, succeeding Carla Del Ponte. Jallow is the first ICTR prosecutor to not also be the prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He was awarded the honour of Commander of the National Order of The Gambia.
Jallow is also an author. He authored The Journey of Justice recently and The Law of the African (Banjul) Charter on Human and People’s Rights. |
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