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2 Rights and priviledges of Benchers.

(b) Honorary Members All legal practitioners entitled by law to practise law in Sierra Leone, who have submitted a successful application in writing to the Director of the Sierra Leone Law School for that purpose.

(c) Benchers Persons invited by the Council of Legal Education from among eminent and distinguished members of the legal profession who are entitled to practise law in Sierra Leone.
(d) Honorary Benchers Persons invited by the Council of Legal Education from among eminent and distinguished members of the legal profession not entitled to practise law in Sierra Leone.

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Benchers of the Sierra Leone Law School — (a) (b) (c) shall be entitled to attend all Call Ceremonies, dinners and other formal functions organized by the Sierra Leone Law School and Council of Legal Education; shall be entitled to join the Chairman’s procession during Call Ceremonies and on all other ceremonial occasions of the Sierra Leone Law School; shall be robed at all Call Ceremonies, dinners and other formal functions organized by the Sierra Leone Law School and Council of Legal Education.
MADE this 28th day of September, 2007.

A. R. D. RENNER-THOMAS, Chief Justice, Chairman, Council of Legal Education.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT, SIERRA LEONE.

GAZETTE NO.

54 OF 18TH OCTOBER, 2007.

STATUTORY INSTRUMENT Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Vol.

CXXXVIII, No.

54 dated 18th October, 2007 STATUTORY INSTRUMENT NO.12 OF 2007 Published 18th October, 2007 THE COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION ACT, 1989 (Act No.
1 of 1989) THE COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION REGULATIONS, 2007 Short title.

IN exercise of the power conferred upon it by Section 22 of the Council of Legal Education Act, 1989 the Council hereby makes the following Regulations- 1.

(1) There is hereby established a body to be known as the Sierra Leone Bar to which all students of the Sierra Leone Law.

School shall be admitted and called on the satisfactory completion of their course of study and professional training at the Sierra Leone Law School.
Establishment of the Sierra Leone Bar.

(2) For the purpose of admission and call to the Bar under sub-paragraph (1), there shall be held, at least once a year, a Call Ceremony to be organized by the Council of Legal Education.

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Membership of the Sierra Leone Bar shall comprise the following categories of persons - Membership of the Sierra Leone Bar.
(a) Ordinary Members All students of the Sierra Leone Law School who prior to the coming into force of these Regulations have completed the course of study and professional training organized by the Council of Legal Education and all students of the Sierra Leone Law School who having completed the course of study and professional training organized by the Council of Legal Education shall be entitled to be admitted and called to the Bar after the coming into force of these Regulations.