Saturday, May 18, 2024

Legal Affairs

Gambia Beats Facebook Over Banned Myanmar Accounts…

Press Release In June 2020, The Gambia initiated discovery proceedings before the United States D.C District Court to compel Facebook to provide content it deleted...

British, Senegalese Nationals in DLEAG’S Custody for Allegedly Cultivating Skunk Cannabis

DLEAG operatives stationed in the West Coast Region conducted a sting operation that resulted in the discovery of a suspected skunk cannabis cultivation centre...

High Court Dismisses Preliminary Objection Raised by UTG Staff Association

By Kebba Secka Justice Landing Sanneh, the vocation judge sitting at the Mile 7 High Court Annex in Bakau on Wednesday September 22nd, 2021 dismissed...

University of The Gambia, UTG Staff Association in Court

By Yankuba Jallow The case between the University of The Gambia (UTG) and the Attorney General against the University of the Gambia Faculty and Staff...

30-year-old woman arrested for alleged child abuse

By Nelson Manneh  The Police have on Tuesday 21st September 2021 revealed that a woman allegedly seen in a video beating a girl child with a...

Comium Gambia Faces Suspension

By: Kebba AF Touray The Gambia Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) has disclosed in a press release that the authority has suspended Comium for failing...

Principal Suspect in Alleged Murder Of Ousman Jarju Charged with Murder

By Nelson Manneh Following an alleged stabbing incident which resulted in the death of one Ousman Jarju of Jalambang, the Police have arrested the principal...

NCCE, Partners Validate Bill

By Mustapha Jallow Officials of the National Council for Civic Education (NCCE) and partners on Tuesday reviewed and validated the NCCE Bill (2021). The bill seeks...

What Will Happen At The Revising Courts?

QUESTION OF THE DAY According the IEC, no objections or appeals have been filed by citizens, but they have 2996 cases of double registration that...

Revising courts to start work in September

By Makutu Manneh The Judicial Secretary has informed Gambians that the revising courts will start to hear and decide objections and appeals to the inclusion...

Police Arrest Suspect In Possession Of A Bag Containing Suspected Drugs

By Nelson Manneh Personnel of the Gambia Police Force have recently arrested a suspect in possession of a bag containing suspected drugs in the North...

Lawyer Antouman Gaye asks for time to respond to case brought...

By Yankuba Jallow High Court Judge, Justice Ebrima Jaiteh, has on Wednesday 18th August adjourned the civil case involving the Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC) and suspended...

Court to rule in NIA 9 Case

By Yankuba Jallow Justice Kumba Sillah-Camara of the Banjul High Court has adjourned the NIA 9 Case to October to enable her deliver ruling in...

Statement of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A....

I have been closely following the current developments in Afghanistan and am most concerned by recent reports of escalating violence in the country. In particular,...

Tribunal Rules against Man who says he is opposed to caste...

Lamin Fatty Chiefs in a group tribunal in Upper River Region (URR) have ruled against a defendant who claimed his farmland became a subject of...

Tanzania: Provide evidence to back-up charges or release political opposition leader

4 August 2021 Tanzanian authorities must promptly provide evidence to substantiate charges against opposition leader Freeman Mbowe, or else release him, said Amnesty International ahead...

Court Orders Police to Compensate Applicant D150,000 for Wrongful Arrest, tells...

By Yankuba Jallow A high court judge said for an arrest to be lawful, the arresting officer must have had a belief of the person's...

Man convicted for murder, sentenced to death

By Lamin Fatty Presiding judge Justice Landing M Sanneh at Basse High Court on Thursday 29th July 2021, convinced and sentenced one Saidou Cham to...

Court Asks Police to Compensate Man for Unlawful Detention

By Yankuba Jallow The high court has asked the police to pay compensation to one Sylvanus Johnson for his unlawful detention by the law enforcement...

High Court Dismisses BB Darboe and Co Suit Seeking Enforcement of...

By Yankuba Jallow A high court judge today dismissed a suit brought by Bakary Bunja Darboe and others before her seeking an order (of mandamus)...