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...
Does posting a hyperlink to a court judgment constitute publication of the ruling? A UK court says not — unless the ruling expressly prohibits this Read judgment If a court bars the publication of certain material on social media, would …Share this:Click to...
An acting judge has recused himself from hearing a murder trial, saying that counsel on both sides had behaved so badly that he was unable to trust them. Acting judge James Grant, formerly one of South Africa’s leading academic experts …Share this:Click to...
