The Foundation believes that one of the ways to achieve lasting change and build fruitful reciprocal relationships in a wide range of countries is to work with young judges and lawyers. A small number of able, well trained individuals can have an enormous impact in countries which are trying to implement legal reform and many of the past recipients of Slynn Fellowships have gone on to hold senior roles in legal firms, academia and their respective governments. In this short video two fellows talk about what it has meant to their professional development  https://youtu.be/0rcS8Ec9NV0 or read other stories below.

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The Slynn Fellowship offers a valuable opportunity for young, promising lawyers from overseas selected by our trustees from countries in which the Foundation has current projects, to spend time working in London at leading city firms and barristers’ chambers and sitting with serving judges. The Foundation selects two candidates who are interested in international practice including commercial law, EU law and/or human rights law and practice.  Through its contacts the Foundation constructs a tailor-made programme for the Fellow, taking account his or her area of interest. To date there have been 17 Slynn Fellowships awarded to young lawyers coming from Finland, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Serbia, Albania and Bulgaria. 

 

During the outbreak of COVID-19 it was not possible to offer fellowships. Instead the Trustees decided to support a worthy charity with the funds please see our 2021 report and more storeys from our fellowship recipients below. 

 

Fellowship 2024

​The Foundation is delighted to have reinstated its Fellowship in 2024 thanks

to the funding from the Anglo American Foundation.

 

During the month of July, two Research Advocates from Zambia

(selected by the Zambian judiciary) were able to travel to London

where they spent three weeks working at the Royal Courts of Justice

in the Judicial Assistants team under the guidance of

Lord Justice Bean and Lord Justice Dingemans. 

We are most grateful to their Lordships for their support of this programme.

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During their time in London the ladies were able to spend a day at the 

Supreme Court where they met Slynn President Lady Rose of Colmworth.

We would like to than the Supreme Court for the warm welcome they 

showed Mweshi (Charmaine) Chibangulula and Rita Maxwell (pictured left 

and right with Lady Rose) In a short video below (click on Fellowship

2024)  the two ladies talk about their experience in their own words.