Janet Ramatoulie Sallah Njie - Managing Partner
Janet Sallah Njie’s professional expertise includes commercial law and practice, family law, human rights law, real estate law, immigration and employment law and civil and criminal litigation. She has experience of undertaking consultancies on varied subjects, including environmental law and policies, children and gender, legislation and policy, HIV AIDS law and policy, forest legislation and policy and local government reforms and access to justice. She is a renowned women’s rights advocate and is the founder and first president of the Female Lawyers Association-The Gambia (FLAG), a charitable organization that offers free legal advice to vulnerable women and children in the Gambia. Janet Sallah- Njie also provides legal advice on a voluntary basis for a number of initiatives and organizations.
Prior to joining private practice and establishing TORODO CHAMBERS in 2002, she served in various positions within the public sector , from 1989 to 2002, including the Ministry of Justice and the Central Bank of The Gambia. She was the Solicitor General and Legal Secretary from 1998 to 2000. In this position, she advised on, and was responsible for, the development and formulation of policy on the Gambian legal sector as a whole, including matters concerning the Judiciary of the Gambia. As Solicitor General and Legal Secretary, she was responsible for the following departments:
During her tenure at the Attorney General’s Chambers she was also appointed as Parliamentary Counsel with overall responsibility for the Legislative Drafting Division and the drafting of all legislative and legal instruments for the Government of The Gambia.
In 2000, after a meritorious service at the Ministry of Justice, she was redeployed to the Central Bank of The Gambia, as legal adviser to the Governor of the Central Bank of The Gambia. She was responsible for advising the Governor and drawing up legal instruments on matters relating to the Supervision of banks, insurance companies and micro Finance institutions.
Her Formal qualifications include:She has also benefitted from several training programmes and professional development courses including training programmes in competition Law and Policy, Intellectual Property Rights, Environmental Law and Policy, Gender and Development, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Sharia Personal Law applicable in The Gambia
