{"id":255,"date":"2010-12-22T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.african-court.org\/wpafc\/?p=255"},"modified":"2025-07-15T17:21:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:21:44","slug":"justice-kelello-justina-mafoso-guni-kingdom-of-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.african-court.org\/afchpr\/justice-kelello-justina-mafoso-guni-kingdom-of-lesotho\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Kelello Justina Mafoso-Guni &#8211; Kingdom of Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Justice Kelello Justina Mafoso-Guni is from the Kingdom of Lesotho. She completed her studies of law at the Universities of Lesotho and Edinburgh, before becoming Crown Counsel in her home country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She then moved to live and work in the United Kingdom, where she was a member of the civil service for 12 years. 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