Zambia’s top court upholds property rights against the state
Zambia’s highest court has delivered a new decision that ends more than four decades during which government occupied prime private land, land that was never paid for and that the state appeared to think it could hold and use, indefinitely. It's a judgment of major...
Writing historical fiction after a lifetime writing about the law
Some days I feel like a traitor. After decades of writing about law and legal developments with an almost obsessive determination to find and stick to verifiable facts, I’ve started to write fiction. Historical fiction. The book of short stories I’m working on is...
Top judges back Uganda’s outdated divorce laws
Uganda’s constitutional court has decided that the country’s divorce laws, requiring strict proof of dastardly sexual behaviour by one of the parties before a judicial divorce will be granted, are quite compatible with the constitution. And, moreover, that the...