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The Judiciary of the coastal West African State of Sierra Leone is undergoing tremendous transformation under the current Chief Justice Babatunde Edwards (photo).
This transformational process initiated by the Chief Justice has enhanced the effective capacity of the institution.
Since his appointment by the President Julius Maada Bio, the Chief Justice has introduced lots of reforms and introduced initiatives that have enhanced the creation of a new face for the Judiciary.
Sierra Leone, which was declared by the British as a crown colony in 1808, has turned out in history to be an experimental state of colonial civilization in Africa, being the first to benefit from so many development initiatives and inventions introduced during the colonel era. The legal system of the country , which is one of the colonial introductions, is modeled on the British legal system and is a combination of the British common laws, statutory laws, many of which were enacted during the colon