Mary Sey

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Mary Mam Yassin Sey (also Mary Mamyassin Sey ) is a Gambian judge.

Sey was the first female judge appointed in the Gambia. She was a high court judge around 2000 . She left Gambia and worked for the United Nations and Ecowas in Liberia as a legal advisor.

From 2007 she was a judge in the High Court of Sierra Leone for three years and eight months under the Justice Sector Development Program of the British Council . From November 2010 to July 2012 she was sent to Swaziland by the Commonwealth Secretariat under a two-year contract . Subsequently, he was posted to the Court of Appeal in Vanuatu . In a high-profile case in October 2015, she convicted 14 members of Vanuatu's parliament for corruption, including Deputy Prime Minister Moana Carcasses Kalosil .

With effect from May 1, 2017, she was appointed judge at the Gambian Supreme Court by Adama Barrow .

Sey was married. In 2001 she referred to herself as a widow.

Individual evidence

  1. Gambia: Government wants re-arrest of student leaders? Retrieved January 28, 2019 .
  2. a b 6 Gambians judges appointed to Supreme, other courts - The Standard Newspaper. May 2, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
  3. Times Of Swaziland. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
  4. Bruce Hill: Vanuatu court sentences 14 MPs to jail for bribery, corruption. October 22, 2015. Retrieved January 12, 2019 (Australian English).
  5. ^ Pacific Institute of Public Policy. (No longer available online.) In: Pacific Institute of Public Policy. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 12, 2019 (UK English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / testbed.pacificpolicy.org  
  6. Gambia: Claims And Counterclaims in Land Palaver, Ex-Judge Vs Mother of Three. Retrieved January 28, 2019 .