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Miatta Maria Samba (born 3 October 1971) is a Sierra Leonian jurist and current Judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Education

She earned a Bachelor of Laws from the Fourah Bay College of the University of Sierra Leone and obtained a Master of Law (MSc) from the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.In addition she also received an LL.M from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee in Scotland. Since 1999 she is a member of the Bar of Sierra Leone.

Professional career

Her professional career Samba began in 2002, working as a lawyer for the prosecution at the Special Court for Sierra Leone concerning crimes during the civil war in Sierra Leone. In 2003 she became a lecturer for law at the Fourah Bay College. In 2006 she left for Uganda, where she joined the countries Field Office of the International Criminal Court. Having returned to Sierra Leone in 2009, she served as a Senior Prosecutor for the Anti Corruption Commission of Sierra Leone in two occasions, once from 2010 to 2012 and also between 2014 and 2015. In 2015 she assumed as a Judge for the High Court of Sierra Leone, a post she held until March 2019. In 2019, she was elected as a Judge at the Court of Appeal in Sierra Leone. In January 2020, she was appointed as a Judge to the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone (RSCSL) which replaced the Special Courts for Sierra Leone. In May 2020, Samba was nominated for election to the International Criminal Court (ICC) by the Government of Sierra Leone. She was elected in December 2020.

References

  1. ^ "ATLAS: Justice Miatta Samba". ATLAS. Retrieved 2021-12-27.
  2. ^ Tommy, Ibrahim (2020-11-03). "Assessing the Competence and Process of Nominating Sierra Leone's Justice Miatta Samba for Election as ICC Judge". International Justice Monitor. Retrieved 2021-12-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ Dawuni, J. Jarpa (2020-12-29). "Another Judicial Win for Women of Africa: Judge Miatta Maria Samba Elected to the ICC Bench". African Women in Law. Retrieved 2021-12-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "Miatta Maria Samba". Giraffe (magazine). Retrieved 2021-12-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. "Miatta Maria Samba (Sierra Leone), Statement of Qualifications" (PDF). International Criminal Court. Retrieved 27 December 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. Mbewa, David Ochieng (24 December 2020). "Sierra Leonean judge Miatta Samba elected as judge of the ICC". CGTN. Retrieved 2021-12-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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