Tension between Uganda’s judiciary and a commission of inquiry headed by one of the judiciary’s own members has heightened following a new Court of Appeal decision. The appeal judgment refused to stay a huge, court-ordered payout to a local pastor …Share...
The finding of a Zambian court holds a salutary lesson for government appointees: ensure the legalities line up before breaking out the champagne A JUDGMENT from Zambia’s court of appeal has left me thinking about the real meaning of independence.…Share...
WHEN half of the criminal appeals heard by a country’s apex court lead to decisions that the trials were a nullity or fatally defective in some way and that conviction and sentence must be set aside, you know there is …Share this:Click to share on Twitter...
The appropriateness of the death penalty as a punishment for even extremely violent murder has been raised at the Supreme Court in Kampala. Members of Uganda’s apex court were considering the case of a 63-year-old woman who murdered and dismembered …Share...
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