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A High Court is a court of law that typically has the power to hear and decide on the most serious and complex legal cases. The exact role and jurisdiction of a High Court can vary depending on the legal system in which it operates. In some countries, a High Court may be the highest level of the court system, and may have the power to hear appeals from lower courts. In other countries, a High Court may be a specialized court that deals with specific types of cases, such as criminal or constitutional cases. The judges who sit on a High Court are typically highly experienced and have extensive legal knowledge.
Tory backbench MPs have urged the government to get on top of spiralling illegal immigration and open up safe legal routes to deter people from handing over cash to human traffickers. Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s plan to break smuggling networks operating in northern France and stop the constant stream of small boats travelling across the…
The stop-start trial of seven Chinese nationals appearing in the Johannesburg High Court for alleged human trafficking and child labour is set to resume in March next year after a Mandarin interpreter was finally secured. The previous interpreter withdrew because the accused complained as they did not understand the Chinese dialect he was speaking….
Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, have sued the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and others over controversy surrounding David Ukpo’s real age. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), others mentioned in the suit are: the Comptroller General (CG), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS); Stanbic-IBTC Bank; United Bank of Africa…
NAFDAC arraigns businessmen over alleged importation of fake drugs Justice Hadizat Rabiu-Shagari of Federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday, convicted and sentenced two women, Osunabi Fatimoh and Olayinka Eniola, to 24 months imprisonment for human trafficking, The judge sentenced the two after they were found guilty as charged by the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking…
WARNING: This story contains descriptions and language associated with child sex offending A man who tried to buy a child online for sex has received just over three years for his depraved actions at a resentencing heard in court today. Known on the dark web as “Kiwipedo”, Aaron Joseph Hutton was sent to jail last…
We urgently need a new UK law to hold companies and the public sector to account when they fail to prevent human rights abuses and environmental harms in their global value chains. Nothing illustrates how broken the global procurement system is better than examining who gets what and how, at the top and the bottom…
The trial of the two men and a woman allegedly involved in trafficking women for sex, resumed in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday. They are also charged with debt bondage and assault, relating to an alleged brothel off Koeberg Road in Cape Town. They have all pleaded not guilty. The trial of two…
TWENTY potential human trafficking victims have been identified in a major police offensive targeting brothels operated across Northern Ireland, the High Court has heard. They were taken to properties arranged by a former sex worker who says she charged each woman £50 under her limited role as a “booking agent”, a judge was told. But…
Zimbabwean multimillionaire Frank Buyanga Sadiqi has reportedly been attacked in prison. Frank Buyanga who was arrested earlier this month in South Africa was reportedly attacked in a Johannesburg remand prison by other inmates. The Herald reports that following his attack, he is now currently seeking to be transferred to another prison as he awaits his bail…
The names of about 257 Judges of various States’ High Courts, Federal High Court, National Industrial Court and some Chief Magistrates, were published to hear election petitions. Consequently, the selected Judges will have to suspend hearing their regular matters for the period that they will be on this special assignment. Section 285(9) of the Constitution, as amended, provides the…
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