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Rwanda: Finance Ministry PS, Top Officials Charged With Abuse of Public Funds
Together with their lawyers, they all appeared in court on Thursday, June 11, for bail hearing, though it did not materialize, owing to prosecution's failure to feed the details of their charges into the online case management
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Coleman Said to Oppress Judge Kendra Coleman Beleaguered Oklahoma County District Judge Kendra Coleman was suspended from her position with pay as she awaits an August trial regarding her conduct on the bench and criminal tax evasion charges. Judge Coleman, 44, faces trial before a special court on
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Public Protector removal: Mkhwebane's application for leave to appeal dismissed | News24
The Western Cape High Court has found Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's application for leave to appeal the court for not halting the National Assembly's removal proceedings against her has no prospects of success.
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Chiwenga wins children’s custody - NewsDay Zimbabwe
THE Supreme Court has set aside a recent High Court judgment and granted Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga custody of his three minor children following protracted legal battles with estranged wife, Mary Mubaiwa. BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE Before yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling, High Court judge
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8 Things To Know About The Proud Boys, The White Supremacist Group Trump Co-signed Instead Of Condemning - Blavity
When moderator Chris Wallace asked President Donald Trump to condemn white supremacists and named Proud Boys as one such group, the name may have been off-putting to some, not just because co-signed racial hatred but because they'd never heard of the group. Rather than denouncing them as he was
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Concourt efficiency declining as judgments miss three month target | News24
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has decreed that all judges must attempt to hand down reserved judgments within three months. But an analysis of Constitutional Court judgments show a steady decline in efficiency.
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Government winning court cases but losing public buy-in, say analysts | News24
Government may be winning court cases seeking to challenge their response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but they are losing public buy-in.
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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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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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Angola: Justice, Law Reform Commission Outlines Lines of Action
Luanda — The Justice and Law Reform Commission (CRJD) pointed out the reform of the organic laws of the Supreme Court, the Superior Council for the Judicial Magistracy and the Attorney General's Office as a priority for its
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‘It hurts to breathe’ – Jacob Blake opens up on his condition from hospital bed [Video] - Face2Face Africa
In an emotional video shared by his lawyer on Sunday, Jacob Blake described his condition as he recovers from the near-fatal shooting incident that has left him paralyzed from the waist down. The 29-year-old also took time to make a heartfelt appeal from his hospital bed. Blake was shot in the back
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Why courts handed DPP upper hand in graft cases
In three decisions rendered by two different judges, the courts maintained that when it comes to prosecutorial powers, the DPP has the last word.
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Trump Notches His 200th Lifetime Federal Judge
Senate Republicans have filled the nation's highest courts with dozens of white men — and zero Black judges.
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Kenya: Reprieve for Sonko as Court Suspends Debate on Impeachment
[Nation] The planned motion to impeach Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko could run into headwinds following the High Court's suspension of debate by MCAs.
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Chasi wants reprieve for Chivayo
ENERGY minister Fortune Chasi has given Intratrek exactly six months to feed 10 megawatts into the national grid, adding intrigue to the raging court case against the company after the Supreme Court this week ruled that its owner Wicknell Chivayo should stand
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Tunisia: Detention Order Against Businessman and Senior Civil Servant
Tunis/Tunisia — The examining magistrate at the economic and financial judicial pole issued, on Wednesday, a Detention order against a businessman operating in the tourism sector and a high-ranking civil servant official, after their hearing, in the presence of their lawyers, Deputy Public
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Togo issues arrest warrant for ex-prime minister Agbéyomé Kodjo | Africanews
A Togolese court has issued an international arrest warrant for opposition figure Agbéyomé Kodjo, who came second in the February presidential election won by president Faure Gnassingbé, and who now lives in “hiding in Togo”, according to one of his lawyers on
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Woman driver in Matilda's Corner fatal crash goes to prison
A woman who was convicted in 2015 of causing death by dangerous driving on Friday lost her appeal of a one-year prison sentence.Ann-Marie Williams, a senior communications professional, was charged in January 2011 after her car slammed into a bus stop on Old Hope Road in the vicinity of
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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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Zimbabwe: Chivayo Fraud Acquittal Reversed
[The Herald] The trial of Intratrek managing director Mr Wicknell Chivayo on a criminal fraud charge of US$5,6 million fraud involving Zimbabwe Power Company's Gwanda solar project, will now proceed after the Supreme Court yesterday reversed his acquittal by the High Court..
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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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Uganda: Political Cases That Will Define CJ Katureebes Tenure
[Monitor] Political cases are always used to define the careers of judges and so will it be for retiring Chief Justice Bart Katureebe.
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Gag order imposed in case of soldier who allegedly shot cop in Portmore love triangle
A judge today ordered that details about the case of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldier who reportedly shot a policeman he caught in his home in a compromising position with his wife should not be shared with the media. 
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Illinois Public Defender Becomes First Black Woman Judge in 11th Circuit
Public defender Carla Barnes has broken barriers after being appointed the first Black woman judge to serve the 11th Circuit District Court.
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Crown says why Sanja Elliott cannot be believed
THE $400-million Manchester Municipal Corporation (MPC) fraud trial ended on Friday, May 15, 2020 with the conviction of main accused 35-year-old Sanja Elliott, the corporation's former deputy superintendent of road and works; his wife, Tasha-gaye Goulbourne-Elliott; two former employees of the
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Supreme Court Judge among several arrested in alleged plot to oust Haitian president
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 8, CMC – A Supreme Court judge was among several people arrested on Sunday for their role in an alleged plot to oust President Jovenel Moise . According to Prime Minister Joseph Jouthe a senior...
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Kenya: Judiciary Puts Executive on the Spot Over Appointment of Judges
[VOA] Kenya's chief justice has accused President Uhuru Kenyatta of disregarding court orders, failing to approve the appointment of new judges, and threatening the constitution.
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Judge President Hlophe's misconduct case postponed yet again | News24
The judicial conduct tribunal, which was set up to hear complaints against Western Cape High Court Judge President John Hlophe, has been postponed yet again.
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Nine judges promoted
Nine members of the judiciary were sworn into higher office today by Governor General Sir Patrick Allen during a ceremony at King’s House in St Andrew. They are David Fraser and Nicole Simmons, who have been appointed as judges of...
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Judge reversed Hylton’s conviction, sentence - Case for breach of anti-corruption law lost in the system awaiting retrial
Member of Parliament for St Andrew Western Anthony Hylton had both his conviction and sentence for two breaches of Jamaica’s anti-corruption law reversed by a judge in 2011, court documents have revealed. Just over three years after the reversal,...
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