Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Legal Affairs

Prolonged Criminal Trial of 4 Real Estate Agents

By Yankuba Jallow The over 3-year criminal trial involving four (4) employees of Manor Real Estate Company has suffered another delay again. On Monday, 15...

Ousman Sonko: “Not at the PIU Headquarters during the April 16...

Source Trial International: Reported by Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) Ousman Sonko is accused of deprivation of liberty, torture and cruel detention conditions of protesters in April...

Litigants Demand Diligent Police Prosecution of Their Cases

By Yankuba Jallow Police have a double role of law enforcement and prosecutorial mandates. At the Magistrates’ Courts countrywide, the police have sought adjournments in many...

Ousman Sonko Denies Responsibility for Baba Jobe’s Murder

Source Trial International: Reported by Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) The former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko is charged with crimes against humanity relating to torture, kidnapping,...

Ousman Sonko Declines to testify about Almamo Manneh’s Murder

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx)(As reported by‘Trial International) The trial of Gambia’s former Interior Minister under former President Yaya A.J.J Jammeh, continues to progress in the Swiss...

Man Accused of Mutilating Ivorian with Cutlass Appears at Brikama Magistrate Court

By Louise Jobe  A man accused of mutilating the hand of one Mr. Rowoang Nwachukwu, an Ivorian national with a cutlass has appeared before Magistrate Fatou Darboe...

Alkalo of Lamen and Others Fail to Appear in Rongo’s Civil...

By Nelson Manneh The seventeen defendants in Momodou Lamin Jarju Aka Rongo’s civil suit on Wednesday, 9 January 2024 failed to appear before the Banjul...

Gambia Lacks Laws Protecting Buyers from Real Estate Scammers

By Yankuba Jallow The Gambia Government’s plan to regulate the real estate sector is not going as planned. Despite President Adama Barrow’s numerous promises, the...

Businessman Alagie Kebbeh Faces Economic Crimes, Theft Charges

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) Alagie Kebbeh, a businessman, has been arraigned in court on charges of economic crime and theft for his alleged embezzlement of...

Law Student Loses Case Challenging Director General of Law School &...

Eric Opoku Agyemang, a student of the Gambia Law School has lost his suit against the Director General of the Law School, the General...

Lawyer Cross-Examines Police Commissioner Sowe in Police Shooting Case

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) Lawyer H. Farage has commenced cross-examination of Police Commissioner Momodou Sowe, the head of the Anti-Crime Unit, seeking to discredit his...

Attorney General Yet to File Defence in Rongo’s D30 Million Case

By Nelson Manneh Senior Counsel Borry S. Touray representing Momodou Lamin Jarju alias Rongo has on Thursday informed the court that the Attorney General did...

Police Commissioner Says Ousaniou Bojang Confessed to Killing 2 Policemen

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) Fifth prosecution witness, Police Commissioner Momodou Sowe, told a High Court in Banjul that Ousainou Bojang, who is charged with the...

GRA Employee Testifies in Senior Health Officials Economic Crimes & Corruption...

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) An employee of the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) on Monday, 4 December 2023 testified in the ongoing economic crimes and corruption...

Defence Lawyer Continues Cross-Examining Star Witness Mama Jabbi in Police Shooting...

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) Senior Lamin J. Darboe on Monday, 4 December 2023 continued with his marathon cross-examination of Mama Jabbi, who said he was...

Chief Inspector Momodou Touray Testifies in Kumba Sinyan’s Murder Trial

By Kemeseng Sanneh Chief Inspector Momodou Touray of the Special Crime Unit attached at the Bakau Police Station on Monday, 4 December concluded his testimony...

Man Charged with Grievously Harming his Wife with Cutlass

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) One Gorgie Sowe of Jalambang Village, West Coast Region, recently appeared in the High Court charged with causing serious bodily harm to...

Defence Tenders Africell Call logs in Police Shooter Case

By Mariama Marong Defence Counsel for Ousainou Bojang, lawyer Lamin J Darboe on Tuesday, 28 November 2023 tendered an Africell call log of Mama Jabbie...

JUSTIFICATIONS FOR DENYING LAWYERS RIGHT TO APPEAR BEFORE DISTRICT TRIBUNALS

High court judge, Justice Sainabou Wadda-Cisse said it is lawful and constitutional that lawyers are denied the right to appear before district tribunals. Section 33...

Court Frees Immigration Officer in Diplomatic, Service Passport Scandal Case

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) Justice Francis Achibonga has freed Lang TombongSabally – an immigration officer, who was standing trial in a diplomatic and service passport...