Henry M. Joko-Smart
Henry M. Joko-Smart was a Sierra Leonean law professor, educator and Supreme Court justice.
Early life
Joko-Smart was born in Bonthe, British Sierra Leone on 4 June 1933. He attended St. Edward's Secondary School in Freetown and Fourah Bay College. He obtained a B.A. in classics and a diploma in education from the University of Durham, UK, LL.B. and LL.M. from the University of Sheffield, UK, and a Ph.D. in law from the Law School at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in London in 1965.Career
Joko-Smart had a lucrative practice in Freetown in the 1960s. From 1966 to 2000, he was a lecturer, senior lecturer, professor of law, and dean of the faculty of law of Fourah Bay College, a constituent college of the University of Sierra Leone. From 1998 to 2005, he served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone.Joko-Smart was the chairman of the Sierra Leone Anti-corruption Commission between 2006 and 2007, replacing Val Collier.
Joko-Smart also served the United Nations in several capacities, including as chairman of the 21st and 35th sessions of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, and a member of the panel of arbitrators of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes in Geneva, Switzerland.