Uganda: Judges Protest New Salary Payment Date

Malawi: CDEDI Faults Chakwera for Appointing Judges to Serve in Diplomatic Missions

[Nyasa Times] The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has questioned the decision by President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera and his Tonse Alliance administration to appoint members of the Judiciary to serve in diplomatic missions.

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Northern Cape teen in court for allegedly beheading peer and throwing body in ditch | News24

It is alleged that the accused beheaded the teen, and then threw the body into a ditch. The head was later found in a shack of a relative of the accused.

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Hall and West take oaths of office

History was made in Evangeline Parish Wednesday afternoon when Pamela Hall, newly elected justice of the peace for Ward 3, was sworn in as the parish’s first African-American to serve in the position.

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Source: Evangeline Today | Covering Evangeline Parish like gravy on rice.

Zimbabwe: Judge Threats - Embarrassed ED in Bid to Clean Up Ziyambi Mess

[New Zimbabwe] President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to underscore his government's commitment to respecting court decisions after suffering embarrassment from his minister Ziyambi Ziyambi who brazenly threatened judges for blocking the incumbent's spirited bid to prolong the life of

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Source: allAfrica.com

Court Assigns Judge Andrews Jr. to Head Complex Cases Division

After a year-long vacancy in which the V.I. court system’s most complex cases came to a standstill, the Honorable Alphonso G. Andrews Jr. has been assigned to handle litigation in the Complex Litigation Division.

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RNC Spokesperson Dodges Same Question About Election Result Over And Over Again

Paris Dennard just couldn't bring himself to say the election was legitimate during a grilling from ABC News' Terry Moran.

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This is public lynching of the judges left out, former CJ tells the president

If a ceremony has been organised for the swearing-in of the president and the Chief Justice refuses to come and swear in the president......

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Source: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke

Kenya: Governor Sonko Turns to Court in Fight Against Impeachment

[Nation] Embattled Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko is headed to court Monday to challenge the process leading to his ouster last Thursday, arguing it was littered with illegalities.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Court of Appeal sittings resume in Kisumu, Mombasa - The Kenya News

The Court of Appeal sittings in Kisumu and Mombasa will resume in July following changes announced by Chief Justice Martha Koome. Sittings at the two courts were suspended in December 2019 after judges there were recalled to Nairobi following a stalemate over the appointment of 11 recommended by

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Source: The Kenya News

Battle over rejected ballots

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Lawyers representing the Member of Parliament (MP)-elect for Westmoreland Eastern Luther Buchanan are expected to make a second attempt at getting the Westmoreland Parish Court to accept ballots previously ruled as rejected.

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Former minister Diana Konomanyi wins corruption appeal hearing

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 June 2021: Diana Konomanyi, a former minister of lands and later minister of local government in the Ernest Bai Koroma APC government, who was accused and found guilty of corruption by a Commission of Inquiry established by President Julius Maada Bio to investigate the

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

DR Congo justice minister resigns | Africanews

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Justice Minister Celestin Tunda resigned his position on Saturday following a dispute with the president over proposed laws that would give politicians more control over criminal

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Language barrier stalls court cases

BY MIRIAM MANGWAYA HIGH Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi on Monday urged Zimbabweans to learn local languages in order to solve communication barriers in court, after a case was postponed because the litigants spoke Ndebele, and the interpreter conversant with the language was off duty. Chitapi

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Justice Miatta Samba is now Supreme Court Judge

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 March 2021 Yesterday, Tuesday, one of Sierra Leone’s most popular and sometimes politically controversial former High Court Judges - Justice Miatta Maria Samba, was sworn-in as Justice of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, following her appointment by President Dr Julius

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Macon B. Allen, first black lawyer

Macon B. Allen was elected judge of the Inferior Court of Charleston. Allen, the first Black lawyer, thus became the second Black to hold a major judicial position and the first Black with a major judicial position on the municipal level.

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Missing documents stall progress in case before the Supreme Court - Barbados Today

The apparent misplacement of the file of a murder accused who has been wanting to plead guilty for the past seven months has raised the ire of a High Court Judge. “This is absolute nonsense regardless of where it is delayed. A man wants to plead guilty to murder since November, 2020. “This is

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Source: Barbados Today - News You Can Trust.

Lesotho: Don't be Swayed by Popular Opinion, Mosito Implores Judges

The Court of Appeal's first session for 2020 began on Tuesday with the apex court president, Justice Kananelo Mosito, imploring judges not to be swayed by public

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Rwanda: Musanze Court Quashes Lawsuit Filed Against Law-Enforcement Agencies

[New Times] Musanze Intermediate Court on Tuesday threw out a case filed against law-enforcement agencies that had been filed by four grassroots leaders and security personnel attached to District Administration Security Support Organ (DASSO), all operating in Musanze District.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Judge sides with DPP in INDECOM counter

THE Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has failed to get the courts to review the lawfulness of a 2018 decision by the director of public prosecutions (DPP) not to prosecute two policemen for an incident that resulted in the fatal shooting of a man.

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Norton residents lose case against Pfugari’s son

MEMBERS of the Knowe Residents and Ratepayers Association in Norton have lost their bid to have the late Edward Nyanyiwa, popularly known as Eddies Pfugari’s son, Edward Nyanyiwa Jnr civil-imprisoned for contempt of court on behalf of his father. BY Andrew Kunambura In their application, the

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

ConCourt appointments draw criticism - The Zimbabwe Independent

BY TINASHE KAIRIZA/ANDREW KUNAMBURA PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa this week flexed his muscles by appointing five judges to the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) at a time Zimbabwe is paralysed by a constitutional crisis triggered by a recent High Court ruling that nullified the extension of former

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Source: The Zimbabwe Independent - The Leading Business Weekly

Attorney in spat with Chuck vows to press for justice

Attorney-at-law Captain Paul Beswick has vowed to continue fighting for significant improvements in the justice system amid a tiff that has seemingly developed with the Justice Minister Delroy Chuck.

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Sudan's Ruling Council Removes First Female Chief Justice, Accepts Attorney General's Resignation

[VOA] Khartoum -- Sudan's ruling Sovereign Council removed Chief Justice Neimat Abdallah Mohamed Khair from the bench and accepted the resignation of Attorney General Taj Al Sir Al Hibir late on Monday, without offering an explanation for either decision.

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Felicien Kabuga's lawyers fight extradition

The court on Thursday May 21, decided to delay until next week the hearing on whether to hand Kabuga to the UN’s International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals based at The

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Source: The East African

Rwanda: Kabuga Lawyers Fighting Extradition

The court on Thursday May 21, decided to delay until next week the hearing on whether to hand Kabuga to the UN's International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals based at The

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Source: allAfrica.com

Howard T Ward becomes Georgia's first Black Superior Court Judge

Howard T Ward becomes Georgias first Black Superior Court Judge

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Jan

24

1977

Tunisia: Nabil Karoui Observes Sit-in At Office of Investigative Judge - UPD1

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Head of Qalb Tounès Nabil Karoui decided Monday to observe a sit-in at the office of the investigative judge at the Judicial Financial Division in protest over the extension of his pre-trial detention since last May 5, said Nezih Souiî, one of his lawyers.

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Source: allAfrica.com

These 6 Black Philadelphia Judges All Graduated From The Same HBCU - Blavity

Six Philadelphia judges who all attended Hampton University in Virginia, one of the country's historically Black colleges and universities, sat down for an interview with CBS Philly to talk about the common path they have shared in their careers.

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Source: Blavity News

Judge seeks to bloc ED from firing her

HIGH Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere has filed an interdict against President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stop him from suspending her until Chief Justice Luke Malaba has followed correct disciplinary procedures. By DESMOND CHINGARANDE Justice Ndewere has been accusing Justice Malaba of

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Zimbabwe: Chin'ono in Fresh Freedom Bid

[263Chat] Jailed freelance journalist, Hopewell Chin'ono, will, through his lawyers, make a fresh freedom bid from at the High Court following his bail denial by the Harare Magistrate, Marehwanazvo Gofa Court last week.

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Source: allAfrica.com

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