Security forces seized top court, Somalia’s ex-chief justice says
Somalia’s former Chief Justice Bashe Yusuf Ahmed told Al Jazeera that more than 300 security forces had ‘militarily occupied’ the Supreme Court after it ruled that President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s term extension, and consequently his presidency, was unconstitutional.
Of the 264 undertrial prisoners allowed bail, 106 had to continue behind bars for various reasons, including their inability to provide financial security or a guarantor to back them
The Chief Justice made the remarks at the 30th Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Media Awards in Accra last Saturday. The Ga Mantse, Nii Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, chaired the event, while the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Patron of the GJA, was represented by the Nkoranzamanhene, Nana Kwame Baffoe IV.
The Centre for Legitimacy and Rule of Law (CLRL) has called on the Chief Justice to establish specialised courts, made up of High Court judges assisted by Circuit or District Court judges, to deal exclusively with bail applications amid the ongoing strike by the Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSAG). In a press statement issued on Monday, November 9, and signed by its Head of Legal, Richard Nii Amarh, the CLRL said that the Chief Justice must take urgent steps to ensure that the suspension of regular court sittings does not prevent people in police or prison custody from…
The court says Delhi and the NCR bear the ‘cumulative burden of vehicular traffic’ and seeks to know what has been done to regulate in the capital the entry and plying of vehicles from neighbouring States
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