In an extraordinary judgment, the highest court in Eswatini has come out strongly supporting human rights and against the kingdom’s police chief. The stance taken by the supreme court in this decision is almost unheard of in that country, particularly …Share...
Legal and human rights circles in Uganda have been roiled by no fewer than three troubling developments in the last week. Over the weekend, the secretary of the Uganda Law Society purported to expel both the organisation’s newly-elected president, Isaac …Share...
Uganda’s legal system is embroiled in yet another controversy over alleged political interference in judicial independence. This time, an official of the Attorney-General’s office wrote to the principal judge (roughly equivalent to a divisional judge president in...
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 …Share this:Click to share...
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 …Share...
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 …Share this:Click to...
