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Home » Judge Paula da Conceição Machatine Honwana sworn in as RSCSL Justice

Judge Paula da Conceição Machatine Honwana sworn in as RSCSL Justice

28 February 2024
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Judge Paula da Conceição Machatine Honwana

Justice Paula da Conceição Machatine Honwana was sworn in today as a Judge of the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone (RSCSL). In a ceremony held in Freetown prior to the opening of the Plenary of Judges, Justice Machatine Honwana made a solemn declaration before RSCSL Vice President Justice Emmanuel E. Roberts to “without fear or favour, affection or ill-will, serve as a Judge of the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone honestly, faithfully, impartially and conscientiously.” She subscribed to the solemn declaration in front of witnesses representing the two parties to the RSCSL Agreement. Stephen Mathias, Assistant Secretary-General for Legal
Affairs, witnessed the declaration on behalf of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Mohamed Lamin Tarawally, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, witnessed on behalf of the Government of Sierra Leone.

Justice Machatine Honwana succeeds the late Justice Elizabeth Ibanda-Nahamya, who passed away in January 2023.

The RSCSL Statute provides for a roster of 16 Judges, ten of whom are appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and the remaining six by the Government of Sierra Leone. The Judges receive no compensation for being on the roster, but are paid on a pro rata basis if called upon to serve the Court. Justice Machatine Honwana was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

From 2011-2014, and again from 2020-2022, she served as a Judge of the Superior Court of Appeals in Mozambique. From 2014 to 2020, she served as Legal Adviser to the President of the Supreme Court of Mozambique. Since 1998 she has served as a Judge in Mozambique in various capacities, in Civil and Labour Divisions of the First Instance Court, and from 2001-2011 was Secretary-General of the Superior Council of the Judiciary, the management and disciplinary board of the Mozambican judiciary.

Justice Machatine Honwana was a member of the Review Committee of the Statute of Mozambican Judges, the Legal Framework of the Superior Council of the Judiciary, and other legal instruments linked to the judiciary.

She has taught law at the Higher Institute of Sciences and Technology of Mozambique (ISCTEM), and at the Centre of Judicial and Judiciary Training in Maputo, Mozambique. She co-authored the book Manual de Formação e Apoio ao Magistrado Judicial em Matéria de Criminalidade Contra a Vida Selvagem (Training and Support Handbook for Judges on Wildlife Crime) in 2022, and has authored a number of articles and academic papers.

Since 2022 Justice Machatine Honwana has served as Legal Adviser at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Mozambique to the United Nations in New York.

She received a Degree Graduate “Licenciatura” in Law in 1997 from the Faculty of Law at the University of Lisbon in Portugal. In 2017 she earned a Master’s degree in Public and International Law at the University of Melbourne in Australia, and in 2021 she received a Postgraduate degree in International Contract Law from Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique.

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