Lois Kawa

Personal Bio

Job Title: Senior Legal Consultant at Quality and Care Legal Consultancy

Areas of Expertise: Mediation

Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, England and Wales (July 2018)

Qualified Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Sierra Leone (January 2011)

Commissioner for Oaths (Republic of Sierra Leone) (2009)

Qualified Barrister of England & Wales (October 2004)

Founder of Quality and Care Legal Consultancy (2009)

Areas of specialization

1. General Civil including Employment and
Arbitration.

2. Crime: Sexual Offences and Domestic
Violence.

3. Sierra Leone Customary and
Constitutional Law.

4. Public Law (Government) with a keen in
interest in Immigration, Housing, Road
Safety, Planning, Environmental and
Administrative Law.

Specialized skills for NGO work.

1. Funds (and other resources) raising.

2. Community Development Projects

3. Training

4. Public Speaking

Leadership
Past President of Legal Access through Women Yearning for Equality Rights and Social Justice (L.A.W.Y.E.R.S) (Sierra Leone) May 2016 to June 2018.

Values
I am committed to using the high quality training I have received and experience I have gained, in the UK and Sierra Leone, to provide a good quality legal service and to find sustainable solutions to improving knowledge and dealing with the perennial problems of high rates of illiteracy and poverty.

I believe in partnerships in attaining these goals and hence in my capacity as Principal Legal Officer at the Office of the Ombudsman, I worked with the International Law Book Facility (ILBF) in the UK, to develop a well equipped library for the Office of the Ombudsman and Sierra Leone's Constitutional Review Committee.

As President of Legal Access through Women Yearning for Equality Rights and Social Justice (L.A.W.Y.E.R.S.), I worked with the World Bank, UK Sierra Leone Bar Pro Bono Network and Project Umubano to provide training for the membership of L.A.W.Y.E.R.S.