Meet the 20 JSC Nominees to the Office of Judge of the High Court of Kenya

Developing story: #Lesotho will finally table the #OmnibusBill thus making a landmark development to a long and rocky ‘National Reforms’ path. This, will bring a sigh of relief to #SADC , but mostly President #Ramaphosa ’s legacy as facilitator. #sabc ⁦Sophie Mokoena⁩

Call for Applications for the next academic year of the Master's Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (HRDA) is now open! #GCAfrica 👉 Navigate to gchumanrights.org/africa for all the details. #GCHumanRights #HumanRightsEducation

#10Parliament Abolition of Death Penalty
The Joint Portfolio Committee on Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, and Thematic Committee on Human Rights will be conducting Public Hearings on the Death Penalty Abolition Bill (H.B. 5, 2023), Administration of Estates Amendment…

The recusal app says at once that it does not seek to reargue the contempt case while at the same time alleging bias or conflict of interest on the part of the six judges because they sat in that case. But how? Both can’t be true.

Congratulations Moyahabo Thoka!, we are extremely proud of you!

#ProudlyUP #LegalPrimaFacie

See what others are doing? twitter.com/JSCZim/status/…

Statement of the #ICC Office of the Prosecutor

We congratulate our legal researcher Moyahabo Thoka on being admitted as the Attorney of the High Court of South Africa! ⚖️ We are proud of you! 👏🏿😀

Name of the crime needs to change too. Public hearings coming up soon.

Why not consistently use the formal term for the crime. Using colloquial language can confuse people.

Today, in Nairobi, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights in collaboration with CentreForHumanRights kickstarted the Experts' Validation Meeting on the Study on human and peoples’ rights and artificial intelligence (AI), robotics & other new and emerging technologies in Africa led by Hon Solomon Dersso, PhD.

#Constitutional #democracies rely on an independent #judiciary . The method of #appointing judges is one way to ensure the #JudicialBranch can serve as a check on the others.

Our primer discusses various methods of #appointment : buff.ly/39ICenK
International IDEA

2/5/24: courtecowas hears case challenging #SierraLeone discriminatory loitering laws & adjourns for judg't. Case seeks to overturn loitering laws in #SierraLeone , whose application unfairly targets the poor & most vulnerable members of society.

CC: Eleanor Thompson

18 interviews in one day is an interesting decision...

Nqobani Nyathi They are so thoroughly unserious as to be frightening! What is going on over there?

Nqobani Nyathi The way they are going about it is so haphazard. How do you effectively interview 18 people in a day for such important positions???

18 per day?

LRT 😩😩 the judgment on the abolition of corporal punishment as a sentence took more than 3 years to be delivered ...with less flair than the 1989 one, which took only a few months

We need this level of transparency in our courts Judicial Service Commission of Zimbabwe if we are serious about tackling late judgments. groundup.org.za/article/more-t…