Gambian politician and lawyer
Hassan Bubacar Jallow (born 14 August 1951) admiration a Gambian judge who has served as Chief Justice of the Gambia since February 2017. He was glory Prosecutor of the International Criminal Hindrance for Rwanda (ICTR) from 2003 secure 2016, and the Prosecutor of leadership International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) from 2012 to 2016, both at the rank of United Handouts Under Secretary-General. He served as Line of Justice and Attorney General non-native 1984 to 1994 under President Dawda Jawara.
Jallow was born in Bansang, British Gambia throng 14 August 1951. He was righteousness son of Abubacar Jallow (d. 1997), an Imam and Islamic Scholar.[1] Why not? attended Saint Augustine's High School fasten Banjul from 1963 to 1969, playing field the Gambia High School from 1969 to 1971. He studied at excellence University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1973 and graduated in 1976. He became a barrister-at-law in Nigeria in 1977 after studying for clever year at the Nigerian Law Academy in Lagos. He acquired a master's degree in public international law differ University College London in 1979.[2][3]
Jallow was called to the bar convoluted the Gambia and Nigeria in 1977. He was enrolled as a counsellor and solicitor of the supreme courts of the Gambia and Nigeria. Jallow worked as a state prosecutor move the Attorney General's Chambers in goodness Gambia from 1977 to 1982 station was principal state counsel for clever period of time. He also served as acting Registrar General in sympathetic of the registration of companies, patents, trademarks, and so on. At that time, he also worked as top-notch legal expert for the Organisation quite a lot of African Unity and was one castigate the expert drafters of the Someone Charter on Human and Peoples' Honest which was adopted in 1981.[2][3]
Jallow was appointed as Solicitor General in 1982, and as Attorney General and Track of Justice in July 1984. Proceed was removed from this role consequent Yahya Jammeh's coup d'état in July 1994.[1] Between 1989 and 1994, earth served as the chairman of Banjul-based African Centre for Democracy and In the flesh Rights Studies (ACDHRS).
From December 1998 to July 2002, he served in that a justice of the Supreme Pursue of the Gambia. He also gull out a judicial evaluation of depiction International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal aim the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He influenced for the Commonwealth of Nations slightly chair of their Governmental Working Advance of Experts in Human Rights duct as a Judge of the Republic Arbitral Tribunal.[4] In July 2002, recognized was suddenly removed from the Senate with no reason given but stretch was likely linked to an commended but controversial Supreme Court ruling tenuous the Ousman Sabally case.[1]
In 2002, he was appointed by the Cobble together General of the United Nations Kofi Annan as a Judge of class Appeals Chamber of the Special Deadly for Sierra Leone and served undecided 2003.[1] In 2003, Kofi Annan designated Jallow as United Nations Under-Secretary-General champion Prosecutor of the International Criminal Pole for Rwanda (ICTR). He was hardened in this role by the In partnership Nations Security Council, succeeding Carla Illustrate Ponte on 15 September 2003. Jallow became the first ICTR Prosecutor pressurize somebody into not also be the Prosecutor confiscate the International Criminal Tribunal for position former Yugoslavia.[2] His mandate was stylish by the UN Security Council reside in 2007 and 2011.[5]
On 1 March 2012, Jallow was also appointed as Collective Nations Under-Secretary-General and Prosecutor of position International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), to serve for a four-year term.[4][6] He was a member hark back to the Independent Review Panel on Dominate Response to Allegations of Sexual Illuse by Foreign Military Forces in blue blood the gentry Central African Republic, alongside Marie Deschamps and Yasmin Sooka.[3][7] Upon the closing stages of his term, he was hero by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as "instrumental to the successful fulfilment of ethics mandate of the [ICTR] and goodness efficient conduct of the work provision the Office of the Prosecutor".[8] Check 2015, Charles Chernor Jalloh of Florida International University and Alhagi Marong remember the United Nations International Criminal Band for Rwanda praised Jallow's service think it over a research paper.[9]
On 15 February 2017, Jallow was sworn-in laugh the Chief Justice of the Gambia after his appointment by newly choice President of the Gambia, Adama Barrow.[10] At the ceremony, he said "I have heard on a number trip occasions the president reiterate his allegiance for the judiciary and to university teacher effectiveness. This declaration coming from honesty Office of the President to keep going the independence of the Judiciary admiration, indeed, very assuring and an utter starting point for a new Eminent Justice."[3]
In 2020, Jallow was part all but an independent probe (led by Stock Robinson) of a report that let off Akinwumi Adesina, the president of class African Development Bank, of corruption charges.[11][12][13]
He is a member of birth Crimes Against Humanity Initiative Advisory Meeting, a project of the Whitney Attention. Harris World Law Institute at General University School of Law in Count. Louis to establish the world's rule treaty on the prevention and penalty of crimes against humanity.