Table of contents
Every topic of Lanbuk on Sierra Leone Legal System, with the cases, the quiz and the model answers.
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Topics
- 1What a legal system is, and law before colonial ruleRules, institutions and the customary order
- 2The colonial legal systemFrom the 1787 settlement to the Protectorate courts
- 3Independence and the post-colonial legal system1961 to the 1991 Constitution
- 4The constitutions of Sierra Leone1863 to 1991
- 5Sources of Sierra Leone lawSection 170 of the 1991 Constitution
- 6Legislation and the making of ActsSections 105 and 106 of the Constitution
- 7Delegated legislationStatutory instruments and their control
- 8Customary law and Islamic lawPersonal laws inside the national system
- 9The Superior Court of JudicatureSupreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court
- 10Magistrates' courts, local courts and courts-martialThe courts below the High Court
- 11Judges, judicial independence and the legal professionAppointment, tenure and the Attorney-General
- 12Judicial precedentStare decisis in the Sierra Leone hierarchy
- 13Law reporting and legal researchFinding Sierra Leone law
- 14Civil procedure in the High CourtThe High Court Rules 2007
- 15Procedure in local courtsSimple, local and customary
- 16Punishment and the purposes of lawWhy the state punishes
Study tools
- Cases9 case summaries: facts, issue, held and principle.
- Quiz64 questions, with a timer and saved scores.
- Model answers8 essay and problem questions with IRAC answers.
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