The lone woman on a three-person High Court Bench hearing a horrific gang rape appeal, has declared she is not obliged to follow a much-disputed 2011 decision by the Supreme Court of Appeal that would have greatly reduced the sentence. …Share this:Click to...
Nambasi V Khan Investments Ltd (Miscellaneous Application No. 602 of 2018) [2019] UGHCCD 126 (28 June 2019); High Court, Kampala, Uganda Read judgment This case, in Uganda’s high court, followed an earlier matter in which the Assistant Registrar ordered that...
There might be widespread agreement that mental illness should be de-stigmatised, but that does not make it any easier for courts dealing with people who show signs of serious psychological ill-health and who are liable to mistreatment because of their …Share...
With the eyes of the world now more sharply focused on human trafficking, all attempts by African courts to help stamp it out are important and will be reflected in annual international surveys. Though cases involving trafficking charges are still …Share...
Our Women’s Month judgment this week comes from Kenya’s Judge William Musyoka. What makes his decision stand out is that he has found and highlighted an anomaly in the law dealing with rape, a particularly traumatic crime that is all …Share this:Click to share...
