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Christmas is coming, so we’re putting you in jail – Zim court

by Carmel Rickard | Feb 20, 2019

In the midst of bad stories about the quality of justice being experienced in Zimbabwe’s courts comes a high court judgment that sees the accused as an individual – and that sets aside his trial sentence in the lower court …Share this:Click to share on Twitter...

Justice & “morality” lose in this case. Even the judge thinks so

by Carmel Rickard | Feb 20, 2019

Unfairly dismissed workers have been denied their back pay, despite the highest court in SA ratifying the order that it should be paid. And all because they subsequently followed the wrong legal process in taking their former employer to task…Share this:Click...

“Disgraceful abuse of legal authority” – attorney re-writes court’s judgment before delivery

by Carmel Rickard | Feb 19, 2019

In what two high court judges have described as misconduct “unprecedented in the annals of SA judicial history”, a magistrate has been found to have allowed an attorney to re-write his judgment before delivery. Even worse, the attorney concerned had …Share...

Valentine’s Day winner: new Tanzanian court rules improve experience of justice by vulnerable groups

by Carmel Rickard | Feb 17, 2019

Tanzania’s Chief Justice, Ibrahim Hamis Juma, has promulgated new rules that could greatly change how people from vulnerable groups experience courts and the justice system. That is why this is Jifa’s winning Valentine’s Day 2019 good news story: we like...

Malawi’s CJ, JSC acted illegally over new appointments – high court

by Carmel Rickard | Feb 17, 2019

When a number of court clerks obtained an order temporarily stopping the country’s Judicial Service Commission and the Chief Justice from recruiting and appointing a certain category of magistrate until their employment dispute was fully considered by the high court,...
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