When a death row prisoner has his date with the executioner commuted and starts a lifelong relationship with the inside of a prison instead, he will usually continue to explore every avenue to escape a prolonged life behind bars. Those …Share this:Click to...
Namibia’s top court has delivered a decision giving notice to the country’s intelligence services that they, too, fall under the aegis of a constitutional democracy. The case concerned material collected by an investigative journalist that appeared to show...
Thousands of Zambian farmers, wanting to claim against a multinational giant for allegedly polluting their water with copper mining effluent, will have their day in court – in the United Kingdom. The UK’s Supreme Court this week ruled that the …Share this:Click...
Malawi’s high court judge Zione Jane Veronica Ntaba is no stranger to controversy. Among her decisions she found her country’s Chief Justice, Andrew Nyirenda and the whole of the Malawi Judicial Service Commission had acted irregularly, illegally and...
A specialised network of organisations responding to the issues of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Kenya has come in for some unwelcome publicity. This after it used a photograph of one of its own staff on its website, with a caption …Share this:Click to share on...
As women’s month comes to a close, take a look at these two decisions illustrating how very differently courts deal with matters of domestic violence. In both cases a woman killed her husband; in both cases the husband had a …Share this:Click to share on...
