Uganda’s constitutional court petitioned over AG’s ‘judicial interference’
Uganda’s legal system is embroiled in yet another controversy over alleged political interference in judicial independence. This time, an official of the Attorney-General’s office wrote to the principal judge (roughly equivalent to a divisional judge president in...
Five SA counsel run up against Namibia’s immigration laws
No fewer than five South African advocates have found themselves on the wrong side of the immigration laws in Namibia over the last weeks. The first to experience the rough edge of Namibia’s immigration law or its regulations was Cape Town’s Theodorus Adam Barnard, on...
Major tax fraud case creates legal history in Uganda
A recently-delivered judgment from the high court in Uganda has made judicial history: the judge held that, under some circumstances, a company ‘dissolved’ as part of insolvency proceedings could be brought back to life, as it were, and the official dissolution set...