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ILFA Alumni
Emeafa Hardcastle, Ghanaian alumni for 2009 has been become a partner at leading Ghanaian Corporate firm LithurBrew & Company
Ayodele Oni Nigerian Alumni for 2009 has been voted Young Lawyer of the Year 2010 in Nigeria.
New joiners for 2011
- Legal Dept Hewlett Packard
- Watson Farley Williams LLP
Lord Bingham
ILFA would like to pay tribute to Lord Bingham who died on Saturday11 September aged 76. Lord Bingham was widely regarded as the country's leading judge who held the three most senior judicial posts in the country. In 1992, he was appointed as Master of the Rolls (MR), going on to take up a four-year term as Lord Chief Justice in 1996. In 2000, Bingham became the first appointed senior law lord. Lord Bingham was a supporter of ILFA and a member of our advisory committee.
Tribute sent to the Times
Sir
Tribute to Lord Bingham
Tom Bingham was, is, and will remain a giant. He could both extract the Rule of Law from the law of rules and reduce principles to rules that were workable for lesser minds. His guiding light and beacon for others is a passionate and principled service to that Rule of Law. He delivered justice, expressed simply and directly.
Most lawyers have only reason and analysis as their tools and guide. Tom's path was also illuminated by an intuitive wisdom and an instinct for right and wrong; he just got it. He had the ability to discriminate in the right way. All of the above is transparent from Lord Bingham's reported cases alone.
I was fortunate to know him at close quarters only briefly through his involvement with International Lawyers For Africa. I learned immediately on our first meeting that the Lord Bingham I knew from the law reports was also Tom Bingham, with neither pretension nor false modesty. Tom was a true Jedi Knight of the Rule of Law, and the force of his spirit will endure even though his presence and humanity on our advisory board will be sorely missed.
Yours sincerely
Tim TaylorDirector of ILFA