Booker Washington Institute is one of Liberia's premier technical and agricultural schools. Given the national focus on youth empowerment the Law Reform Commission determined to include the Institute in its Outreach/Public Awareness program.

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In the wake of the Government’s advocacy for decentralization of governance in Liberia, the Law Reform Commission, LRC in collaboration with the Liberian National Bar Association, LNBA recently held a one day Outreach  Law Teaching Program for students at the Voinjama Multilateral High School.
The legal education for students which formed an integral part of the LNBA Second Quarterly Bar Assembly held in Voinjama, Lofa county from May 23 through 27, 2012 was led by His Honor, Associate Justice Kabineh M. Ja’neh. The law education forum covered several topics including Theft of Property, Theft of Property lost, Miss-laid, and lost or delivered by mistake.

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Disease is man's greatest enemy in life. Its ability to disable a person is enormous once permitted to enter the human body. It leads to untimely death, great human suffering, etc.  So, how do we deal with this adversity?  It is simple.  Medical doctors have warned that the best way to fight disease is to prevent it in the first place, then to seek for its cure.  In other words, prevention is better than cure.

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The Standard of Care, What is it?

In society, law demands all members of a given community to hold and respect a set of rules; be it natural, man-made or a combination of both with the sole objective of guiding the conduct or actions of individuals to ensure peaceful co-existence and public order. Such standards suggest that for every conduct or undertaking, the established rules must clearly define and set regulations and the consequences thereof.

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