Awa Bah

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Awa Bah (from around 2012 also partly Awa Bah-Jammeh ) (* around 1973 in Banjul ) is a Gambian judge.

Life

She first attended the Methodist Primary School and then from 1985 to 1992 the Gambia High School , where she received her GCE Ordinary and Advanced Level Certificates.

Justice Bah then went to Nigeria to study law at the University of Abuja . She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws, LLB (Hons) , and her bar final from Nigeria Law School in Abuja. She was appointed to the bar in both Nigeria and Gambia in 1999. From 1997 to 2010, Bah worked in various functions in the Gambian Ministry of Justice, up to Solicitor General from 2009. After that, she worked several times as a holiday replacement as a judge at the High Court in May 2011. In August 2011 she was a judge at the Brikama High Court and 2014 at the Court of Appeal. In October 2017, she was named President of the Court of Appeal by President Adama Barrow , the first woman to hold this post.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sidiq Asemota: Gambia: Detained Ex-Agric Officials Seek High Court Bail . In: The Daily Observer . April 16, 2012 ( allafrica.com ).
  2. ↑ PROFILES. (PDF) In: googleusercontent.com. webcache.googleusercontent.com, accessed January 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Gambia: NGOs Discuss Human Rights Situation in Africa . In: FOROYAA Newspaper . May 11, 2009 ( allafrica.com ).
  4. ↑ Sidiq Asemota: Gambia: Court Orders Gov't to Take Possession of Libyan assets in the Country . In: The Daily Observer . May 9, 2011 ( allafrica.com ).
  5. ↑ Sidiq Asemota: Gambia: Teacher Convicted for Defiling a teenager . In: The Daily Observer . August 11, 2011 ( allafrica.com ).
  6. ↑ Sidiq Asemota: Gambia: Court of Appeal Urges Appellant Counsel to File letter . In: The Daily Observer . July 3, 2014 ( allafrica.com ).
  7. ↑ Bruce Asemota: Gambia: President Appoints Eight Gambian Judges . In: The Point . October 18, 2017 ( allafrica.com ).
  8. ^ Yankuba Jallow: Gambia: Chief Justice Presides Over Introductory Ceremony for New Judges . In: FOROYAA Newspaper . November 6, 2017 ( allafrica.com ).
personal data
SURNAME Bah, Awa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bah-Jammeh, Awa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian judge
DATE OF BIRTH around 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Banjul