[4] In July 2002, he was suddenly removed from the Judiciary with no reason given but it was likely linked to an acclaimed but controversial Supreme Court ruling in the Ousman Sabally case.

[1] In 2002, he was appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan as a Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and served until 2003.

[5] On 1 March 2012, Jallow was also appointed as United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), to serve for a four-year term.

[4][6] He was a member of the Independent Review Panel on UN Response to Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Foreign Military Forces in the Central African Republic, alongside Marie Deschamps and Yasmin Sooka.

[3][7] Upon the conclusion of his term, he was praised by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as "instrumental to the successful fulfilment of the mandate of the [ICTR] and the efficient conduct of the work of the Office of the Prosecutor".

This declaration coming from the Office of the President to maintain the independence of the Judiciary is, indeed, very assuring and an excellent starting point for a new Chief Justice.

"[3] In 2020, Jallow was part of an independent probe (led by Mary Robinson) of a report that cleared Akinwumi Adesina, the president of the African Development Bank, of corruption charges.