It’s a busy afternoon, writing columns for the weekend deadline, but I have had to take time out to read an important judgment, delivered by the Supreme Court of Appeal today in the case of sacked SABC journalist, Vuyo Mvoko. …Share this:Click to share on...
Belief in witchcraft will no longer automatically keep the death penalty at bay in Zambian murder cases, according to a landmark new judgment of that country’s Supreme Court. Five judges of Zambia’s highest court, including the Chief Justice and the …Share...
WHEN the government of Rwanda recently applied to the United Kingdom’s secretary of state for the extradition of five alleged genocidaires, it claimed a “sea change” had taken place in the way Rwanda’s courts operated. Concerns expressed by the UK …Share...
Ever since her appointment as Chief Justice of the Seychelles in 2015, Mathilda Twomey, the first woman to hold this position, has been a target of sexist behaviour and threats by a particular senior colleague on the Bench. But though …Share this:Click to share...
A SOUTH AFRICAN advocate and a firm of attorneys could be in serious trouble with their professional bodies after a high court judge said they had acted “unprofessionally or worse” and ordered that a copy of his judgment be given …Share this:Click to share on...
Just read a decision delivered today from the full bench of the high court in Mthatha concerning Mzoxolo Dyantyi, an accused found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. But the regional magistrate sat alone and did not inform …Share this:Click to...
