The Supreme Court of The Gambia will sit today in full bench to hear the pending appeal cases before it.

The country’s highest court was supposed to start sitting yesterday, February 4th 2008, but could not proceed due to settling-in of the visiting judges, said Justice Akomaye Agim, president of the Appeal Court of the Gambia.

Commenting on the two weeks sessional sittings of the country’s highest court, the event which happens only twice in a year, Mrs M.T. Bisola Cole, principal registrar of the Supreme Court of the Gambia, confirmed that today’s sitting will be presided over by Chief Justice Abdou Karim Savage, to be assisted by five other prominent judges drawn from different countries in Africa such as Hon Mrs Justice Imambilima Justice of Supreme Court of the Republic of Zambia,  Hon Justice Gibril B. Semega Janneh, a Gambian judge on UN-appointed mission in the Sierra Leone, Hon Niki Jobi from Nigeria, Hon Jones Dotse from Ghana and Hon Justice Akomaye Agim, president of the Court of Appeal of The Gambia, also acting judge of the Supreme Court.

The judges, according to Mrs Cole, the principal registrar Supreme Court of The Gambia, are on a two weeks sessional sitting in The Gambia, from the 4th to 15th February 2008, after which they will return to their respective countries.