Hassan B. Jallow | |
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Chief Justice of the Gambia | |
Assumed office 15 February 2017 | |
President | Adama Barrow |
Preceded by | Emmanuel Fagbenle |
Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals | |
In office 1 March 2012 – 29 February 2016 | |
Preceded by | New position |
Succeeded by | Serge Brammertz |
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | |
In office 15 September 2003 – 31 December 2016 | |
Preceded by | Carla Del Ponte |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
Justice of the Supreme Court of the Gambia | |
In office December 1998 – July 2002 | |
President | Yahya Jammeh |
Minister of Justice Attorney General of the Gambia | |
In office July 1984 – July 1994 | |
President | Sir Dawda Jawara |
Preceded by | Fafa Edrissa M'Bai |
Succeeded by | Fafa Edrissa M'Bai |
Solicitor General of the Gambia | |
In office 1982–1984 | |
President | Sir Dawda Jawara |
Succeeded by | Raymond Sock |
Personal details | |
Born | Bansang, British Gambia | 14 August 1951
Alma mater | University of Dar es Salaam Nigerian Law School University College London |
Hassan Bubacar Jallow (born 14 August 1951) is a Gambian judge who has served as Chief Justice of the Gambia since February 2017. He was the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from 2003 to 2016, and the Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) from 2012 to 2016, both at the rank of United Nations Under Secretary-General. He served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General from 1984 to 1994 under President Dawda Jawara.