Special Court for Sierra Leone
Press and Public Affairs Office
PRESS RELEASE
Freetown, Sierra Leone, 15 May 2006
New President for the Special Court for Sierra Leone
Justice George Gelaga King of Sierra Leone has been elected Presiding Judge of the Appeals Chamber, a post which makes him President of the Special Court for a period of one year.
Justice King will succeed as President Justice Raja Fernando of Sri Lanka, whose term ends on 26 May.
Justice George Gelaga King has been President of the Sierra Leone Court of Appeal and of the Court of Appeal of the Gambia. He served as Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to France, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland from 1974 to 1978, and was at the same time Sierra Leone’s Permanent Representative to UNESCO. Between 1978 and 1980 he served as Sierra Leone’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Justice King taught law at the Sierra Leone Law School from 1990 to 2005. He is Chairman of both the Sierra Leone Law Journal and the Gambian National Council for Law Reporting, and was a member of the Sierra Leone Council of Legal Education. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
He has been a Judge of the Special Court for Sierra Leone since December 2002.
The Appeals Court Judges also selected Justice Emmanuel Ayoola of Nigeria as Vice-President. He will succeed Justice Renate Winter of Austria.
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