CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: Hassan Bubacar Jallow
GENDER: Male
DATE OF BIRTH: 14th August 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH: Bansang, The Gambia
NATIONALITY: Gambian
STATUS: Married with children
POSTAL ADDRESS: P.O. Box 4456
Cape Point, Bakau, The Gambia
Tel: +220 336 2323 or +220 799 2323
E-mail:
[email protected]LANGUAGES: English, French, Fulani, Wolloff, Mandinka and
some Kiswahili
SCHOOLS ATTENDED:
1. St. Augustine’s High School Banjul, The Gambia, 1963 - 1969
2. Gambia High School Banjul, The Gambia, 1969 – 1971
3. University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, 1973 – 1976
4. Nigerian Law School, Lagos 1976 – 1977
5. University of London (University College), 1978 – 1979
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QUALIFICATIONS:
1. LLB (Hons) (First Class), Bachelor of Laws, 1976 (Dar-es-Salaam).
2. BL, Barrister-at-Law, 1977 (Lagos).
3. LLM, Master of Laws, (Public International Law), 1979 (London).
4. Called to the Nigerian Bar, 1977.
5. Called to the Gambian Bar, 1977.
6. Enrolled as Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Courts of The Gambia
and Federal Republic of Nigeria.
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:
Long and diverse experience at senior operational and policy management
levels at both national and international levels as:
(a) Legal adviser
(b) Prosecutor
(c) Cabinet Minister
(d) Legislator,
(e) Judge and
(f) Chief Justice
POSITIONS HELD:
I. State Counsel: Attorney General’s Chambers, Ministry of Justice,
The Gambia, 1977 – 1979 – criminal prosecutions and legal advice.
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II. Principal State Counsel: Attorney General’s Chambers, Ministry
of Justice, The Gambia, 1979 – 1982- conduct of and supervision of
other counsel engaged in criminal prosecutions, civil litigation, legal
advice, international legal matters.
III. Acting Registrar-General: Attorney General’s Chambers Ministry of
Justice, The Gambia 1977 – 1982 registration of companies and
businesses, patents, trademarks, administration of estates, conduct of
marriages, criminal and civil litigation.
IV. Solicitor General and Legal Secretary: Attorney General’s
Chambers, Ministry of Justice, The Gambia, 1982-1984 – deputy to the
Attorney General, Legal Advisor and administrative head of the
Ministry of Justice.
V. Attorney General and Minister of Justice: The Gambia, 1984 – July
1994 – Chief Legal Adviser to the government, Member of the
Cabinet and ex officio Member of Parliament.
VI. 2001: Elected Judge Ad Litem International Criminal Tribunal for
Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for four (4) years term.
VII. 2001: Appointed Member, Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral
Tribunal.
VIII. 2001: Appointed Judge, Appeals Chambers, UN Special Court for
Sierra Leone.
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IX. September 2003 to December 2015: Appointed by the UN Security
Council as Chief Prosecutor, United Nations International Criminal
Tribunal for Rwanda (UNICTR) and Under Secretary General of the
United Nations. Responsible for the investigation and prosecution of
those who played a leading role in the Rwanda genocide of 1994.
X. March 2012 to February 2016: Appointed by the UN Security Council
as Chief Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for
Criminal Tribunals (MICT) responsible for the residual prosecutorial
work of both the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia (UNICTY) and the United Nations
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (UNICTR).
XI. June to December 2015: Member, UN Panel to investigate UN
response to Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Peacekeepers in Central
African Republic in 2015.
OTHER ASSIGNMENTS
1979 Member of Group of Experts selected by the Organisation of
African Unity to prepare a preliminary draft African Charter on
Human and People’s Rights.
1984-1994 Chairman of the National Management Committee of the Gambia
Law Foundation.
1984 -1994 Vice Chairman of the General Legal Council, The Gambia
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1984- 1994 Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy
(The Gambia).
1984-1994 Member of the Chancery of the National Order of the Republic of
The Gambia.
1985 Chairman of Committee 1 of the Seventh UN Congress on the
Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders – dealing with
Criminal Justice Processes and perspectives in a changing world and
the formulation and application on United Nations Standards and
Norms in Criminal Justice.
1987 Vice Chairman - UNESCO Conference on Human Rights Teaching
and Research Malta.
1987. Vice Chairman - Dakar Colloquium of Experts on the African
Charter on Human and People’s Rights.
1987. Rapporteur General - International Expert Meeting on the United
Nations and Law Enforcement, Baden, Austria.
1988. Member of restricted group of experts invited by the UN Secretary
General at Preparatory meeting for 8th UN Congress on Crime
Prevention and Treatment of Offenders, Topic: New Dimensions of
Criminality and International Cooperation to combat Crime, Vienna.
1989- 1994 Founding Chairman, Governing Council of the African Centre for
Human Rights And Democracy Studies (ACDHRS) Banjul.
1990. Chairman, Commonwealth, Working Group of Governmental Experts
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on Human Rights.
1993. Chairman, Group of Experts to examine ways of fostering greater
reliance on model treaties for crime prevention and criminal justice,
UN Office Vienna, (CPCJB)
1993. Chairman, Group of Experts to advice on establishment of National
Human Rights Commission for Gambia.
1994. Rapporteur General Joint African Law and Interior Ministers meeting,
Kampala, Uganda
1998. Member of Expert Group appointed by U.N. Secretary General to carry
Out a judicial evaluation of and recommend measures for the effective
functioning of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia
(ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
1999. Appointed by UNCTAD Secretary General as Project Adviser and
Member of Board of UNCTAD Project for Resolution of International
Investment, Trade and Intellectual Property Disputes.
1994 – 1998 Following the change of government in 1994, a Private Legal
Practitioner and Consultant.
1998-2002 Justice of the Supreme Court of The Gambia, the final appellate court of
the Gambia.
2017 to date Chief Justice of The Gambia
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2020 – 2021. (a) Member, Panel of Eminent Africans(5) tasked by Africa
Union (AU) to prepare a ranked pool of candidates suitable
for appointment to senior leadership of the African Union;
(b) Member of 3 man Panel to Review allegation of
misconduct against the President of the African
Development Bank (Afdb); and
(c) Member of Group of Independent Experts selected by the
Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute to carry out a
review of the functioning of the International Criminal Court
(ICC).
Chief Justice of the Gambia – February 2017 to date- As such I presided
over the Supreme Court the final Court in The Gambia responsible for the
management of the Judiciary, preside over the Judicial Service Commission for
appointment of all judicial officers, preside over the General Legal Council for
the regulation of the Bar i.e. the lawyers etc.
HONOURS: Commander of the National Order of the Republic of The
Gambia (CRG).
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS:
Member of Board of Directors - World Justice Project
Member - Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, U.K
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Member - Advisory Council for a Convention on
Crimes against Humanity
Chairman - Africa Group for Justice and
Accountability
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS:- - (i) The Law of Evidence in The Gambia
(Excaf Publishers, Dakar, Senegal 1998)
(ii) Law, Justice and Governance: Selected
Papers
(Excaf Publishers, Dakar Senegal 1998)
(iii) The Law of the African (Banjul)
Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
(Trafford Publishing, Canada 2007)
(iv) Introduction to the Zikr/Wirds of the
Tariqat Tidjanniyya (2011)
(v) Journey for Justice
(Author House) 2012
(vi) Prosecuting International Crimes:
Recollections and Reflections (2019
Lulu Publishers)
PAPERS: Numerous
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