Africa
Poor Kenyans likely to end up on death row - Study
Kenya's death penalty disproportionately affects people from low-income households, many of whom lack proper legal representation.
DW
Results for "trial in absentia"
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Africa
Rwanda fines man $900 over death of top journalist
John Williams Ntwali was killed last month when a speeding vehicle hit the motorcycle on which he was a passenger.
BBC
Africa
Ex-policeman gets death penalty for lawyer’s murder
Kenya does not carry out death sentences, even though the death verdict is allowed by law.
BBC
Europe
Mason Greenwood: Manchester United forward has all charges against him dropped
The 21-year-old forward faced one count of attempted rape, one count of controlling and coercive behaviour, and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Sky News
Africa
South Africa: Lawyer ordered to pay clients’ $80,116 stolen by scammer
Attorney Gavin Hartog believed he was transferring money to his client’s account but it went to a fraudster
Ground Up
Africa
Nigerian woman jailed in UK for stealing £19,650 from vulnerable patients
Her lawyer told the court that Mrs Abiola Akinremi took to fraud because she was suffering from depression and needed money for childcare.
Peoples Gazette
Africa
Nigeria ask London court to overturn $11B arbitration award
The legal dispute centers on a contract that the Nigerian officials struck with Michael Quinn, an Irish former band manager, and his business partner Brendan Cahill, to help the country turn its vast reserves of natural gas into power.
Leadership Ng
Africa
Nigeria court remands three Sharia Judges, others for alleged theft in Kano
The judicial workers are accused of forging letterheads of the Kano Sharia Court and signatures of the two signatories to the court's Stanbic IBTC bank.
Premium Times Nig
Supreme Court News
Motion against High Court: Gyakye Quayson seeks review of SC ruling
On November 30, 2022, the Supreme Court panel presided over by Dotse(JSC) dismissed a motion for Certiorari and Prohibition filed by the embattled MP against a ruling of the High Court(Criminal Division).
DL News
Africa
South Africa: Leading law firm ordered to pay victim of cyber crime
Johannesburg High Court Judge Phanuel Mudau has ruled that ENS Africa must pay Judith Hawarden $293,335 plus interest, and pay the legal costs of the lawsuit on a punitive scale.
Ground Up
Courts
Bulldog fined GH¢48,000 over 'threatful' comments about President Akufo-Addo on Menzgold issue
He was charged with offensive conduct to the breach of the peace, but pleaded not guilty.
DL News
US
AI-powered "robot" lawyer will be first of its kind to represent defendant in US court
Joshua Browder, CEO of DoNotPay, said the company's AI-creation runs on a smartphone, listens to court arguments, and formulates responses for the defendant.
CBS News
Courts
Scrap dealer sentenced 3 years for stealing from National Security
Jussif Adumbila, charged with stealing, pleaded guilty.
GNA
Courts
Scrap dealer accused of stealing Meek Mills’ iPhone remanded
Nuhu Sulley was charged with stealing when he appeared before an Accra Circuit Court but denied the charge.
GNA
Courts
Bukom Banku and son granted GHC 50,000 bail each over stabbing incident
Having pleaded not guilty, both are facing charges of abetment of crime and of causing damage.
DL News
Crime
Lockerbie bombing suspect will not face death penalty
The US alleges that Abu Agila Masud was a Libyan intelligence operative and played a key role in the 1988 attack, which left 270 people dead.
BBC
US
Mixed emotions over arrest of Lockerbie bombing suspect
All 259 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 747 bound for New York from London died while another 11 people were killed in Lockerbie when the wreckage destroyed their homes.
BBC
US
Florida lawmaker charged with pandemic aid fraud
State Rep. Joe Harding of Ocala, Florida, illegally obtained or tried to obtain more than $150,000 in pandemic loans from the Small Business Administration for two corporate entities that had been dormant until he applied for the funds
Seattle Times
Courts
Account fully for all money received, return Mercedes Benz C230-Court orders ex-customary wife
"Save that the 1st Defendant is declared to be the owner of the property described as Property No. B22, Emefs Lagoon View Estates, Sakumono, Tema for the reasons stated in paragraph 125 above, all the reliefs in the Counterclaim are DISMISS...
DL News
Courts
Opuni case: High Court to hear motion against ruling, referral to SC on Dec 1
On Monday, November 14, the court presided over by retired Justice Honyenuga dismissed an application filed by Dr. Stephen Opuni which sought to restrain him from continuing to preside on his case despite his retirement
DL News