Archive for the ‘Shipping News’ Category

18Jun

Rwanda books arrive!

Great to hear from GITINYWA Louis at the Rwanda Christian Lawyers Fraternity that our shipment of books has arrived safely at their offices in Kigali. Louis says ‘the donation will greatly boost our operations, especially as we have opened up three liaison offices across the country and currently we have expanded our operations as we look to […]
18Jun

Advocacy books for Sierra Leone

Trainers from the Inns of Court College of Advocacy International Committee visited Sierra Leone in late May to deliver advocacy training to junior lawyers. This is part of a programme that started back in February when Sierra Leonean judges and senior lawyers were trained to be advocacy trainers. In the future, the Sierra Leonean judges […]
12Feb

Introducing Elaf Hamid, our new Shipping Coordinator!

In this Q&A, we introduce the ILBF community to Elaf Hamid, our new Shipping Coordinator. Elaf is a law student at the University of Surrey, currently on her placement. She has taken the role of ILBF’s Shipping Coordinator for the remainder of the academic year. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Hi! My name […]
03Jan

2023 in review

In 2023 we shipped 600 boxes of books to 19 organisations in 12 countries – that’s about 5,500 books. We worked with law students, lawyers, in-house legal teams, publishers and law librarians to sort and pack valuable legal textbooks. University of Surrey law students Jodie-Lee Boyle and Elaf Hamid made a considerable impact as shipping […]
25Jul

Proud to support the work of Justice Defenders

Books from the ILBF reach organisations across the world. They are used by judges, lawyers, law students and lecturers, pro bono practitioners and drafters of laws. It is hard to quantify the absolute number of beneficiaries. There are the users of the libraries themselves: lawyers, judges, law students, lecturers, teachers, government ministers, advisers at NGOs, […]
12Apr

Bolivia: Attorney General’s office

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 […]