Legal services are essential activities that are urgent for all those who knock on the doors of justice. One can never deny access to justice to anyone, even in times of a lockdown. The 1991
Constitution of Sierra Leone established the Judiciary – consisting of the entire body of courts in
Sierra Leone and the machinery that governs them – as an independent third organ of Government. The Chief Justice is the Head of the Judiciary of Sierra Leone and, acting on the advice of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission of which he is chairman, is responsible for the “effective and efficient administration of the Judiciary.


