Over the last few months Uganda’s courts have delivered a series of decisions that extended democratic practices. Judges have declared restrictive legislation unconstitutional and ordered compensation for a detainee killed by police. No wonder some observers hoped...
The safety of judicial officers and others using the courts had become a matter of serious concern to the SA government, according to the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola. Speaking at the AGM of the Judicial Officers …Share...
Three issues were at the forefront of discussion when the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola, attended the AGM of the Judicial Officers Association of South Africa (Joasa) this weekend. Why was ‘recycling’ approved when acting magistrates had...
The Judicial Officers Association of South Africa (Joasa) has thrown down the gauntlet to South Africa’s Chief Justice, Mogoeng Mogoeng, saying there was ‘an over-concentration of power’ in the Office of the Chief Justice and calling for a symposium to...
Prominent Ugandan high court judge Ssekaana Musa has told litigants in dispute over traditional leadership that they should ‘always’ refer such quarrels ‘to the King or traditional or cultural leaders’. Judge Musa was considering two disputes about traditional...
Three women judges of Zambia’ Court of Appeal have dismissed a young man’s appeal against his sentence: 30 years’ imprisonment with hard labour for violently raping his 12-year-old cousin three times. He claimed he took the girl as part of...
