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Nandlall criticizes Alexis over report saying PPP appeal likely to fail
Attorney Anil Nandlall today rapped Grenadian Queen’s Counsel, Dr Francis Alexis for remarks attributed to him in today’s Guyana Chronicle that a PPP appeal to the Caribbean Court of Justice over a Guyana Court of Appeal ruling has no “real prospect of
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Angola: Isabel dos Santos Claims 'Justice Denied' After Rejection of Assets Appeal
[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists] The Angolan billionaire has accused the country's legal system of being "rigged" after a Luanda court threw out an appeal to unfreeze her assets.
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Dr Alexis must withdraw his remarks about this case before the CCJ - Stabroek News
Dear Editor, Yesterday’s Sunday Edition of the Guyana Chronicle’s, lead headline loudly screams, `Dr. The article Dr Alexis must withdraw his remarks about this case before the CCJ appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Chuck urges JPs to read NIDS bill
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Minister Delroy Chuck wants justices of the peace (JPs) to carefully examine the National Identification and Registration Bill and make their contributions towards ensuring that the rights of citizens are fully protected as...
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Female Drug Lord Abandons Former Life to Advocate | National News | The Michigan Chronicle
Stock photo by cottonbro from Pexels Perrion Roberts lived multiple lives. She was once a drug queen pin, but she has since left that life to become an advocate for people with felony convictions and those victimized by the criminal justice system, ESSENCE reported. On Jan. 24, 2014, at 49 years
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PNP saddened at sudden passing of Justice Harrison
The People’s National Party (PNP) is expressing condolences at the passing of retired Judge of the Court of Appeal, Justice Paul Harrison. Harrison passed away suddenly yesterday. Senator Donna Scott-Mottley, opposition spokesperson on...
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'SoHo Karen' Miya Ponsetto finally arrested for assaulting Black teen - DefenderNetwork.com
Miya Ponsetto, labeled 'SoHo Karen' by Black Twitter falsely accusing a Black teen of stealing her cell phone and attacking him at a New York City hotel, has finally been arrested after nearly two weeks. According to TMZ, Ponsetto was taken into custody in Los Angeles after being located as
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Mozambique: Josina Machel's Former Boyfriend Seeks Injunction
[AIM] Maputo -- A Maputo judge has granted businessman Rufino Licuco an injunction seeking to forbid his former girlfriend, Josina Machel, daughter of Mozambique's first President, Samora Machel, from using his name or image.
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Angola: Constitutional Court Organic Draft-Law Ready for Parliament
Luanda — The draft law on the Organic Structure of the Constitutional Court (TC) is to be submitted to the National Assembly (parliament), after having been favourably assessed, last Wednesday, by the Angolan Government, in a Cabinet Council
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Daughter of J'can immigrants to lead DOJ | New York Carib News
Yesterday, the US Senate confirmed Kristen Clarke, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants to lead the DOJ's Civil Rights Division.
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CCJ enabled free and fair elections result - Stabroek News
Dear Editor, It was precisely because of the CCJ that we had free and fair elections. The article CCJ enabled free and fair elections result appeared first on Stabroek News.
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OP-ED: On Bloody Sunday's 56-Year Mark, President Biden's Words Remind Americans That Democracy Needs a Renewed Push for Voting Rights - BNC
By Damon Hewitt, acting president and executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Washington, D.C.) – On the 56-year mark of Alabama’s brutal Bloody Sunday attack on Black communities, their allies and democracy itself, President Joe Biden released recorded remarks this
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KRA hits snag in bid to collect Sh619m from Co-op Bank
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) suffered a blow in its pursuit of Sh619.16 million in excise tax from Cooperative Bank of Kenya after a tribunal barred the taxman from collecting the money.
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Dawn M. Jones Installed As 58th President Of State Bar of Georgia
Attorney Dawn M. Jones, managing member of The Firm of Dawn M. Jones, LLC in Atlanta, was installed as the 58th president of the 52,000-member State Bar of Georgia on June
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"This conviction cannot stand": Black woman arrested after she claims she was racially attacked is appealing - Voice Online
ON MAY 25, 2019 Siyanda Mngaza went on holiday to a Brecon campsite in Wales. Her family say that she was the victim of a racist attack. However Siyanda was then arrested by the Dyfed-Powys police. On March 13, she was sentenced to four and a half years in prison, by an all-white jury that found
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Kenya: Governor Mutua's Order on Pharmacy Sites Gets Court Nod
The High Court has dismissed a petition challenging a decision by Machakos governor Alfred Mutua to shut down private health facilities and chemists operating near public hospitals within the
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Oral arguments to begin Friday on latest challenge to election results, decision could be made by Sunday - Stabroek News
Chief Justice Roxane George today said that oral arguments will begin on Friday afternoon, July 17 at 2 pm on the latest challenge to the declaration of results from the controversial March 2nd general elections and arguments should conclude around 5 pm and a decision could be handed down by
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Does govt really respect independence of the Judiciary? - NewsDay Zimbabwe
THE government’s purported respect for the independence of the Judiciary and rule of law in the country is suspect and must be The post Does govt really respect independence of the Judiciary? appeared first on NewsDay Zimbabwe.
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Florida Governor Introduces Troubling Law, Allowing Citizens To Shoot “Looters And Rioters”
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Lobby group decries abuse of criminal justice system
BY HARRIET CHIKANDIWA The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (The Forum) has expressed concern over what they called an apparent trend of manipulation of the criminal justice system to punish dissent through prolonged and undue pre-trial incarceration. The rights group also bemoaned the selective
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Africa: Transgender People Still Criminalised in 13 UN Member States, Report Finds
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Nigeria, Oman and Lebanon are among the nations with explicit anti-trans laws
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Moyo –first African to lead IBA in 74 years
By Staff Reporter Prominent Zimbabwean lawyer and Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) board member, Sternford Moyo, is the new International Bar Association (IBA) president. The Zimbabwean veteran lawyer becomes the first African lawyer to lead the IBA in its 74-year-old history after taking over
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What Would Martin Luther King, Jr. Say About the World Today | The Madison Times

By Ana Martinez-Ortiz In times of great turmoil and great triumph, we often find ourselves looking back on our past for guidance. As the cliché saying goes, history has a way of repeating itself and can act as a guide when it comes to making a decision about the next step. Given today’s current

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Jamaican-born Deborah Archer elected first Black president of the ACLU in 101-year history - Face2Face Africa
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has elected its first Black President in its 101-year history. Deborah Archer, a clinal law professor at New York University School of Law, was elected virtually over the weekend by the union’s 69-member board of directors and she brings to this position
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DPP discontinues law reports charges against Nandlall - Stabroek News
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has discontinued the 2017 charges previously instituted against now-Attorney General Anil Nandlall over his alleged theft of law reports valued in excess of
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Legal challenge to amendment Acts - NewsDay Zimbabwe
By Arthur G O Mutambara As we have explained before, both Constitutional Amendments (No 1 and 2) Acts are unconstitutional and illegal. The post Legal challenge to amendment Acts appeared first on NewsDay Zimbabwe.
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HPCSA to approach presidency regarding criminal matter against doctors | News24
The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) plans to take the matter about the death of Dr Abdulhay Munshi to the presidency.
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Cape Town's legal practitioners power through Covid-19 to help the poor for free | News24
The Covid-19 pandemic did not stop the wheels of social justice from turning for the vulnerable in Cape Town.
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Nationwide— Every year, the American Institute of Trial Lawyers chooses a handful of the nation’s leading attorneys to receive their “Litigator of the Year” award. Attorney Zulu Ali received this award for 2020. The American Institute of Trial Lawyers is a professional organization that accepts
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