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DAVID TAM-BARYOH
James has participated in consultations at the request of the International Criminal Court. in addition to which, as a qualified Solicitor-Advocate, he has represented individuals before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and was assigned indigent Defence Counsel before both the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. James is Vice Chair of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Committee, a member of the Expert Witness Institute and sits on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Pro Bono Panel. He also holds the post and visiting fellow of the University of Westminster. James continues to represent capital clients imprisoned in the United States and various Caribbean states on a pro bono basis and to assist in the development of legal capacity-building projects in Africa. Despite which he continues to find enough time to indulge in a love of mountain biking and the more punk rock aspects of the musical world. FRANCIS GABBIDONMEMBERE
Presently he is a distinguished Tutor at the Sierra Leone Law School,
Lecturer in Media Law, at the University of Sierra Leone and Ombudsman
of the Republic of Sierra Leone. Dr. Menah Pratt holds several degrees in Law and Sociology from distinguished Universities in the United States of America presently she is Vanderbilt University Compliance Officer and Assistant Secretary to the University. Prior to her present position she worked as Attorney at a Private Law
Firm in Tennessee, U.S.A.
Before founding LAWCLA, he worked in several legal professional capacities: as a Private Legal Practitioner in Sierra Leone; as a consultant for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Namibia; as a Public Law Lecturer at the Polytechnic of Namibia; and as a Protection Officer for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees Branch Office in Sierra Leone. In addition to representing numerous clients before various domestic courts in Sierra Leone, he is also representing an indictee before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. He continues to lecture on International Law and Human Rights Law at the University of Sierra Leone. He was awarded Sierra Leone Lawyer of the Year for 2003 by the National Achievement Committee of the All Works of Life. Mr. Nicol-Wilson has a number of publications to his credit including co-authouring a Handbook on Human Rights for the Namibian Police, a Handbook on the Need for the Reform of Discriminatory Laws against Women in Sierra Leone and a Handbook for Paralegals in Sierra Leone. His article on Accountability for Human Rights Abuses in Sierra Leone was published in the Australian International Law Journal (2001) and his article on the Sierra Leone Special Court, Rwandan and Yugoslavian Tribunals was published in the Australian Law Journal (2002). He has also developed a Training Manual on Juveniles in the Criminal Justice System in Sierra Leone. Additionally, he has written a study guide on Human Rights, Administrative Law, and Statutory and Constitutional Interpretation for the Polytechnic of Namibia. |
David
Tam-Baryoh is Executive Director of the Centre for Media, Education
Technology (CMET), the Freetown, Sierra Leone-based League affiliate.
Former Secretary-General of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists,
and Editor of the Punch Newspaper. Tam-Baryoh has worked as research and
publications officer at the Ghana-based Media Foundation for West
Africa, and served as the manager of the Foundation's magazine,
Zongo-Giwa. He also reports for the World Press. Tam-Baryoh studied
social and political philosophy in Nigeria and read journalism at the
Ghana Institute of Journalism in Accra in 1993. He is a member of
several press organisations, including the International Press
Institute, Commonwealth Union, World Association of Newspapers, and UCIP.
Trained by the BBC World Service Trust, he has done several research and
training for the BBC. He has written extensively on political and media
issues and holds a MSC in Social Sciences from St. Clement University,
United Kingdom. David is the author of two books on corruption and media
in Sierra Leone.
Kakuna
Kerina is the Senior Advisor for Africa and the Senior Program Director
International League for Human Rights. Previously, as Executive Director
of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), she established the regional
office of Soros Foundation in Dakar, Senegal and launched its operations in
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) nations, plus Chad.
The Foundation disbursed US $ 10 Million in grants annually to civil
society institutions, governmental organisations and government agencies
working nationally in the areas of human rights, democracy and
governance, media, information communication technologies (ICTs), legal
reform and transitional justice. Prior to OSIWA, Ms. Kerina, as Director
of the Africa Program established Africa initiatives and developed and
implemented projects promoting the Rule of Law and human rights and
strengthening West African civil society institutions. She worked as
Africa Program Director at the Committee to Protect Journalist and
directed projects for the United Nations Development Programme's
Development division.
Upon
completion of his solicitor's training with Kingsley Napley and having
sat his Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales Finals
in 1996, James represented capital defendants in the US prior to working
as an in-house lawyer with Oury Clark Chartered Accountants until the
establishment of Oury Clark Soliciotrs in 1998. James has amassed
significant experience advising clients in relation to the varied fields
of corporate/commercial, disciplinary tribunals, corporate
responsibility and International Criminal and humanitarian law. A
partner in Oury Clark Chartered Accountants and the Senior Partner in
Oury Clark Solicitors, James' qualifications and expertise, as both a
solicitor and chartered accountant, provide a unique background of
training and skills to serve the needs of both firms' corporate and
private clients. Through close work with founders of biomedical device
companies emanating from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering,
Imperial College, London, in particular, James also specialises in
issues relating to the area of biomedical technology.
Francis
Gabbidon is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Sierra Leone.
He studied law in England before returning to Sierra Leone in the early
1970s.
Melron Nicol-Wilson is founder and Director of the Lawyers Centre for
Legal Assistance Trust. Mr. Nicol-Wilson received a Master's Degree in
Law (LL.M) specializing in International Criminal Justice and Armed
Conflict from the University of Nottingham in the United kingdom, and a
Master's Degree in Law (LL.M) specializing in Human Rights and Constitutionalism
from University of Pretoria in South Africa. He received a diploma in
Equal Status and Human Rights of Women from the University of Lund in
Sweden and a certificate in Human Rights Teaching and Research from the
International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. He
completed Undergraduate Legal Studies at the Fourah Bay College and
Professional legal studies at the Sierra Leone Law School. He is also a
former Human Rights Law Teaching Fellow, Human Rights Institute,
Columbia Law School, New York.