Uganda’s highest court says MPs have been acting unconstitutionally when they have given themselves salary hikes. Instead, the government is supposed to introduce proposals for increases, as the costs of the increases are charges on the country’s Consolidated...
Zambia’s ruling Patriotic Front government is in the process of piloting wide-ranging changes to the country’s constitution into law. The proposed amendments have drawn considerable criticism from political opponents of the PF on grounds of poor drafting, infringement...
Justice Prithviraj Fekna, who served on the Seychelles Court of Appeal, died unexpected this week. He had been sworn into office as a non-resident member of the appeal court on 27 June this year. Previously he had been a member …Share this:Click to share on...
Successful contempt orders seem to be less rare than they once were, if two recent judgments are anything to go by. Just as courts are handing down more decisions finding public servants personally liable for part of the legal costs, …Share this:Click to share...
Initially I was confused: how could SA’s highest labour court decide that subordinate agreements trumped the crucial Labour Relations Act (LRA)? Read the judgment The man who tested this issue, Leon Appels, is a teacher in Klerksdorp. During 2016 he …Share...
