The remedy sought by the applicant, on an urgent basis, was rather unusual. For a final order, he wanted the court to declare, in the main, as being unlawful and a breach of his constitutional rights, the respondents’ conduct in barring him from retiring from the police force after having reached the pensionable service. Ancillary to that, was a request to set aside the respondent’s letter communicating that decision. More
This is an application challenging the constitutional validity of s 28 (2) of Reconstruction of State Indebted Insolvent Companies Act [Chapter 24:27], (“the Reconstruction Act”). The said provision expressly removes employees or former employees of a company falling under the Reconstruction Act (of which the third respondent is one) from the protection afforded by the Labour Act [chapter 28:01]. More
This was an application for bail pending appeal. It was opposed. I dismissed it soon after argument and gave reasons ex tempore. The applicants say they want to appeal. So they have asked for written reasons. Here they are. More
The parties to these divorce proceedings are resigned to the fact that their marriage relationship has irretrievably broken down and therefore that their marriage should be dissolved. The cause of this matrimonial disharmony is however contested, whereas the plaintiff attributes the same alleged incessant and unfounded accusations (which he does notelaborate) and general harassment at the hands of the defendant, the latter however, ascribes the breakdown to plaintiff’s alleged sexual indiscretions and philandering ways coupled with a deprivation of the expected consortium omnis vitae. More
This was an appeal against sentence only. In the court a quo the appellant was unrepresented. She was convicted on her own plea of guilty to contravening s 82(1) of the Parks and Wild Life (General) Regulations of 1990 (SI 362 of 1990) (“the Parks Regulations”), as read with s 128 of the Parks and Wildlife Act, Cap 20:14 (“the Act”). These provisions relate to the illegal possession of ivory. More
