Sunday, December 22, 2024

Legal Affairs

Magistrate Transfers Sanyang Murder Case to High Court

By Louise Jobe Principal Magistrate A. Mendy of the Brikama Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, 14 February 2024 transferred a murder trial involving a resident of...

Independent Witness Testifies in Alleged Police Shooter’s Murder Trial

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) Alieu Cham testified on Monday, 12 February 2024 in the murder trial of Ousainou Bojang, who allegedly shot and killed...

Victim Testifies in Robbery & Stealing Case against 4

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) Retired civil servant, Abdoulie A. Danso, testified in the robbery and stealing case involving four (4) Nigerian nationals. The four accused persons,...

Abdoulaye Thiam & Aisha Fatty Case Resumes after Long Break

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) The civil case involving Senegalese business tycoon, Abdoulaye Thiam, against Gambia’s businesswoman, Aisha Fatty, has resumed for the first time in 2024 after the...

Judge Admits Contract, Other Documents in Senior Health Officials’ Corruption Trial

By Mariama Marong Justice Ebrima Jaiteh of the Banjul High Court on Monday, 12 February admitted into evidence contract and other documents in the criminal...

Lawyers for 6 Schools Challenge Competence of Students’ Veil Case

By Mariama Marong Justice Ebrima Jaiteh of the Banjul High Court is set to deliver a ruling on 21 March 2024 on whether the veil (hijab)...

Janjanbureh High Court Sentences Man to Death for Murder

By Lamin Fatty A trial judge in Janjanbureh High Court has convicted and sentenced a man to death for murder. The convict was one Bubacarr Bah....

Court Gives Time to State to Negotiate with Families of AKI...

By Mariama Marong Justice Ebrima Jaiteh of Banjul High Court has granted more time for the state to further negotiate with the representatives of Acute...

Court Asks Female Murder Suspect to Get a Lawyer

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) Mariama Jallow, who has been accused of killing a 16-year-old boy in Brufut by stabbing him with a knife, has been told...

Forex Bureau Murder Suspect Remanded

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) Principal Magistrate Sallah Mbye has remanded the alleged murderer of HM Bureau Exchange staff. Police prosecutor Superintendent Jammeh appeared for the Inspector General of...

District Tribunal Yet to Decide on Berending Village Land Case

By Nelson Manneh Mr Sanna Sanyang, the Alkalo of Berending Village in Kombo South on Thursday, 25 January 2024 testified before a tribunal in a...

President of Bar Association’s Speech on Police Actions

By Yankuba Jallow Senior Lawyer Neneh M.C Cham, the newly elected President of the Gambia Bar Association has called on the Gambia Police Force to...

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...