The Legal Aid Board is providing legal representation to 15 of the 27 soldiers in the ongoing Court martial in Freetown. 12 of the 27 soldiers are being represented by private lawyers. The soldiers were...
The Legal Aid Board (LAB) has succeeded in securing the acquittal and discharge of three Inmates from the Koidu Magistrate Court and High Court in Kono district, eastern part of Sierra Leone. The accused,...
Sierra Leoneans stranded in the desert of Timbuktu, Mali has in a heart-wrenching video received by our media house, make a distress call to the government and the International Organisation for Immigration...
The Executive Director of the Legal Aid Board, Fatmata Claire Carlton-Hanciles on Sunday 11th June 2023, departed Sierra Leone for United Nations General Assembly high-level debate on the theme "Equal...
The Legal Aid Board has concluded the third and final phase of the UNDP-funded training of Police Investigators and Prosecutors on the 2018 Bail Regulation at the Kenema District Council Hall on 19th May...
On Monday 15 May 2022, the May High Court Criminal session commenced in Sierra Leone, as the Judiciary opened its doors to a total of ninety-two (92) cases that were transferred from the Magistrates Court...
Our WCW today is Nicky Spencer-Coker, the Head of Advocacy and Movement Building for the Feminist Group, Purposeful. Nicky Spencer-Coker is a practicing barrister and solicitor of the High Court of...
The High Court in Freetown has acquitted a Guinean named Aminata Jalloh after Legal Aid Board applied for her release to Justice Monfred Sesay. The lady was in court for shop-breaking, larceny and conspiracy...
Magistrate Hadiru Daboh has accused employees at Legal Aid Board as salary earners, who are not doing the job they are being paid for. He made this statement after three accused persons have been behind...
The Legal Aid Board has provided representation to seventy (70) accused persons arraigned before the Honourable Justice Nicolas Browne-Marke, JSC at the just concluded September Criminal Sessions of the...
