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Katrina Crossley explains how donating unwanted legal textbooks can boost advocacy training in Sierra Leone.
Trainers from the Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA) International Committee are visiting the West African country Sierra Leone this spring to deliver advocacy skills training. The first stage will be to train Sierra Leonean judges and senior lawyers to be advocacy trainers; the second will be advocacy training for junior lawyers, run jointly by the ICCA and the Sierra Leone Bar Association (SLBA) jointly. The intention is that future training will be run by the SLBA itself.
To support the SLBA in establishing its own advocacy training body, the
International Law Book Facility (ILBF), in collaboration with the UK Sierra Leone Pro Bono Network (UKSLPBN), is planning to send it a number of textbooks on the art of advocacy and advocacy training. The textbooks will be an invaluable complement to the training and help to enhance its impact and long-term sustainability.
If you have unwanted books on the art of advocacy and/or advocacy training, the ILBF would be delighted to hear from you – the books will be given a much-appreciated new home.
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Students at the Malawi Institute of Management with books from the ILBF in 2023.
Our mission is to share legal knowledge.
Since we were founded in 2005 by Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (then a lord justice of appeal), we have shipped 88,000 books to 280 organisations in 57 countries. Books are donated by law students, lawyers, law firms, barristers’ chambers, courts and legal publishers (including LAG). Teams of volunteers sort and pack books ready for shipment by sea. We send them to judiciaries, universities, law schools, parliaments, professional bodies, NGOs and prisons. Donated textbooks support education, legal consistency, authority and fairness in the legal system in jurisdictions where up-to-date legal materials are not widely available and access to the internet is not a given.
Repurposing printed texts supports the rule of law and access to justice, and seeks to drive sustainability in the legal sector by saving valuable books from landfill; using sea freight minimises the our carbon footprint. We partner with multiple organisations in the UK, such as the UK SLPBN, to further rule of law programmes.