The Legal Aid Board provided Legal representation to 25 of 36 accused persons arraigned before the Honourable Justice Monfred Sesay at the two-day November Criminal Call-Over Holden at the Freetown High Court No. 1 from 30 November to 1 December 2020. The 25 accused persons were charged with various...

15 December 2020 – The Executive Director of the Legal Aid Board, Ms. Fatmata Claire Carlton-Hanciles has urged staff to prepare for a steady increase in their workload come 2021 even with limited resources at their disposal. She made this remark while opening the National Planning Seminar of the ...

The Legal Aid Board has secured the acquittal and discharge of one Ibrahim Sorie Sillah from the High Court Holden in Freetown presided over by Honourable Justice John B. Alieu, JA on 10 December 2020. The accused person was acquitted and discharged by the court on all three-counts following a verdi...

The Legal Aid Board had nine staff at inception in May 2015. These include five Legal Aid Counsels and three clerks. The Counsels include the Executive Director, Ms. Fatmata Claire Carlton-Hanciles and her assistant the Legal Aid Manager, Ivan Ansumana Sesay now a Justice of the Appeals Court. The B...

The Executive Director of the Legal Aid Board, Ms. Fatmata Claire Carlton-Hanciles has pledged to strengthen the Office of the Directorate of Gender and Equal Opportunities of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF). This will entail capacity-building for staff, setting up a Gender Desk Of...

Freetown, 26 January 2021. The Legal Aid Board has provided representation to 36 accused persons arraigned before the Honourble Justice Reginald Fyne, Justice of the Appeal Court at the January Criminal Call-Over (a session where trial dates are allocated to upcoming cases) held at the High Court on...