Hassan Bubacar Jallow
| Hassan Jallow | |
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| Chief Justice of the Gambia | |
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Assumed office 15 February 2017 |
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| President | Adama Barrow |
| Preceded by | Emmanuel Fagbenle |
| Prosecutor of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals | |
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In office 1 March 2012 – 29 February 2016 |
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| Preceded by | New position |
| Succeeded by | Serge Brammertz |
| Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | |
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In office 15 September 2003 – 31 December 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Carla Del Ponte |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Minister of Justice Attorney General of the Gambia |
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In office 1984–1994 |
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| President | Dawda Jawara |
| Succeeded by | Fafa Edrissa M'Bai |
| Solicitor General of the Gambia | |
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In office 1982–1984 |
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| President | Dawda Jawara |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Hassan Bubacar Jallow 1951 (age 65–66) |
| Alma mater |
University of Dar es Salaam Nigerian Law School University College London |
Hassan Bubacar Jallow (born 1951) is a Gambian lawyer, jurist and politician who has served as Chief Justice of the Gambia since 2017. He was the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from 2003 to 2015, and Prosecutor of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) from 2012 to 2016. He served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General from 1984 to 1994 under President Dawda Jawara.
Jallow was born in the Gambia in 1951. He attended Saint Augustine's High School in Banjul from 1963 to 1969, and the Gambia High School from 1969 to 1971. He studied at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and graduated in 1976. He became a barrister-at-law in Nigeria in 1977 after studying at the Nigerian Law School in Lagos. He acquired at master's degree in public international law from University College London in 1979.
Jallow was called to the bar in the Gambia and Nigeria in 1977. He was enrolled as a barrister and solicitor of the supreme courts of the Gambia and Nigeria. Jallow worked as a state prosecutor at the Attorney General's Chambers in the Gambia from 1977 to 1982 and was principal state counsel for a period of time. He also served as acting Registrar General in charge of the registration of companies, patents, trademarks, and so on. At this time, he also worked as a legal expert for the Organisation of African Unity and held to draft the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights which was adopted in 1981.
Jallow was appointed as Solicitor General in 1982, and as Attorney General and Minister of Justice in 1984. He was removed from this role following Yahya Jammeh's coup d'etat in 1994. From 1998 to 2002, he served as a justice on the Supreme Court of the Gambia. He also carried out a judicial evaluation of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He worked for the Commonwealth of Nations as chair of their Governmental Working Group of Experts in Human Rights and as a member of the Commonwealth Arbitral Tribunal.
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