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...
Court decision adds to woes of embattled Kenyan president
Already under severe criticism for his stance on new taxes and the brutal suppression by police of protests against the scheme, Kenya’s president William Ruto must now come to terms with yet another setback, this time from the courts. He had appointed a commission of...