Archive for the ‘Recipients’ Category
12Apr
The ILBF’s first ever shipment to Bolivia succeeded because of an exceptional collaboration with multiple partners. Sea freight is generally more economical and arguably less carbon emitting than air freight, but it is not without its challenges, especially when the ultimate destination is land-locked like Bolivia. The ILBF was delighted to receive an application for […]
29Apr
Latest shipment of almost 600 books arrives at three Ghanian universities
The ILBF’s latest shipment to Ghana was a great example of collaboration in the UK and in Ghana, with organisations and individuals in the UK and in Ghana working together to deliver nearly 600 books to three universities. The story starts with the University of Surrey: in 2020-2021, undergraduate law student David Dadson took on […]
03Mar
Turks and Caicos Islands create new law library
The ILBF was delighted to be able to support the Turks and Caicos Islands judiciary, when Chief Justice Mabel Agyemang decided to improve the facilities in Providenciales by creating a library in the court building. Despite the constraints of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during 2020-21, the ILBF managed to send two shipments of books. This […]
05May
Latest donations reach Ethiopia’s Hawassa University and Dilla University
In July 2020, the ILBF was able to ship 51 boxes containing 404 excellent legal texts to Hawassa University and Dilla University in Ethiopia, thanks to a generous donation from Thomson Reuters. Despite the constraints of Covid-19, the Thomson Reuters warehouse team put in a huge effort to make sure the books were packed and […]
25Aug
Professor Hugh Thirlway’s legacy lives on in the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
The ILBF receives donations of law texts from across the legal profession—everything from single volumes from students, to complete sets of law reports from retiring judges, and scores of practitioner texts from law firms, chambers, courts, and legal publishers. We value every single donation. It is however very rare for an entire library of books, […]
10Mar
ILBF and ROLE UK partner to send books to the MoJ Library in Niger State
The ILBF recently worked with ROLE UK to deliver 90 boxes of books to the Ministry of Justice in Niger State, Nigeria, which arrived in January 2020. ROLE UK supports sustainable partnerships between the UK legal sector and governments, lawyers, professional bodies and organisations in developing countries, to help strengthen the rule of law and […]



