Dear Mr. President,
On one of my visits to Sierra Leone, I found out that there are only about 100 lawyers to serve a population of 5.3 Million people which is a ratio of about one lawyer to every 53 thousand citizens.
On my visits to the courts, I find a very crowded criminal docket; cases in the civil courts take an inordinate amount of time from filing to ajudication, the rules of civil and criminal procedure in Sierra Leone appear to be non extant, there does not appear to be a penal (...)
Alieu Iscandari writes President Koroma
Dear Mr. President,
Full storyOn one of my visits to Sierra Leone, I found out that there are only about 100 lawyers to serve a population of 5.3 Million people which is a ratio of about one lawyer to every 53 thousand citizens.
On my visits to the courts, I find a very crowded criminal docket; cases in the civil courts take an inordinate amount of time from filing to ajudication, the rules of civil and criminal procedure in Sierra Leone appear to be non extant, there does not appear to be a penal (...)