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| Ms. Glenna Thompson: Ag Director, Investigations & Prosecution |
• Glenna Thompson, Acting Director
Prosecutions and Investigations was called to the Bar of England and Wales in
1993 by the Honourable Society of Inner Temple. She holds an LL.M in Public
International Law from the London School of Economics, University of London.
Practiced mainly in criminal law, both prosecution and defence, and general
common law at the Chambers of Wilfred Forster – Jones in London till 2002,
and remained a door tenant till 2004. She commenced private practice in Sierra
Leone in 2002, and was Co-Counsel for Alex Tamba Brima the first Accused in
the AFRC trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. She was from October
2006 to July 2007 – Component Manager, Administration of Justice Component,
Justice Sector Development Programme. She was also lecturer in Criminal Law
at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone from September 2003 to July
2007. In private practice she acted as adviser to several international organisations.
As a member of the Legal Reform Initiative she was working group on the reform
of the Criminal Procedure Act 1965 (Sierra Leone) and the drafting of the new
Criminal Procedure Bill and the domestication of the Rome Statute into Sierra
Leone and the drafting of the bill. She drafted the Domestic Violence bill as
part of the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee and UNDP drive to domesticate
CEDAW, the bill subsequently became law in 2005.
• October to November 2004 - Member of the four man drafting committee
of the draft omnibus bill of the TRC recommendations
• Chair of the Administration of Justice Sub – Committee (JSDP)
and author of Criminal Justice Best Practice Handbook developed by the Sub-Committee.
• Consultant – Database of Remand Prisoners and Implementation of
the Criminal Justice Best Practice Handbook.