IN THEIR OWN WORDS S v Nyamayevhu High Court, Masvingo, Zimbabwe Judge Garainesu Mawadze In this case of wife-murder, the accused had been in custody for six months as he was refused bail, the judge said. He added: While in …Share this:Click to share on Twitter...
The child in this case claimed she had been raped by a relative of her father’s, starting from when she was nine years old. The case against the accused seemed strong, and the regional (senior) magistrate convicted him and sentenced …Share this:Click to share...
A small-scale farmer in the far north of Namibia wanted to evict his cousin from the same piece of land where he was working the land because the cousin was ignoring conditions aimed at protecting the highly-sensitive veld. But Judge …Share this:Click to share...
Two new decisions from the High Court in Namibia show judges on the warpath against drugs and drug dealing. The distinctly tougher line follows a watershed judgment late last year (2018). As I wrote at the time, through that strongly-worded …Share this:Click to...
The failure of Uganda’s Government to pass laws protecting people evicted from private and public land has come under the sharp eye of the high court. Following an application brought by a local human rights lawyer, the court has declared …Share...
