The first judgment chosen as part of Jifa’s Women’s Month focus is from Eswatini. It deals with the murder of a young woman who had a toddler, now left an orphan. What makes this judgment on sentence different from many …Share this:Click to share on Twitter...
Every year, August is marked as Women’s Month in South Africa. It grew out of the yearly August 9 national holiday. On that day in 1956, some 20 000 women joined in a protest march to the capital, Pretoria. They …Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in...
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...
