Children’s song helps convict rapist father
A popular action song, widely taught to children in Kenya and elsewhere to help protect them from sexual predation, has played a key role in detecting the rape of a four-year-old by her own father and in the father’s subsequent conviction and sentence. Giving her...
Ritual killings, legal loophole on death penalty laws in Zimbabwe
A recent decision by Zimbabwe’s supreme court illustrates, yet again, the problem of ritual killings – murders in the name of witchcraft – and how the courts should deal with them. But this particular case, in addition to being one of the most tragic and gruesome that...
Appeal court insists on transparency from judges, probity from counsel
Uganda’s appeal court has delivered a major decision that insists essential legal principles must be observed by both the courts themselves and by practitioners who appear in the courts. The three appeal judges effectively censored a legal practitioner as well as a...