South African judge Navi Pillay has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, recognising her decades of work as a human rights champion. The announcement places her among the most prominent legal figure…
Kenya Police face a civil lawsuit over a lockdown imposed on parts of Nairobi during the anniversary of the Gen Z protests that swept the city last year. The legal action, filed on behalf of trader…
A woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday after being found guilty of defrauding an elderly couple out of R94,000 in Somerset West, South Africa. The case has drawn attention to the gro…
Helen Prest Ajayi, crowned Miss Nigeria in 1979, has filed an appeal against a court ruling she claims undervalues the Tosin Ajayi Estate. Her legal team submitted papers at Lagos High Court on Thu…
Former crew members of a Scottish fishing trawler have come forward with allegations of systematic labour exploitation, describing conditions that one worker said reduced him to feeling like a slav…
A police inquiry in South Africa has uncovered allegations that officers accepted gifts from a Brazilian national during a botched anti-drug operation, raising questions about the integrity of law …
Two cousins from KwaZulu-Natal received prison sentences on Thursday after being convicted of murdering an innocent man in a case of catastrophic mistaken identity. The men, who admitted targeting …
Andrew Paul Futcher received a 15-year prison sentence on Friday after a court found him guilty of orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that duped hundreds of investors out of their savings. The case, hear…
Sthembiso Mdlalose will learn his fate for the Usindiso building arson attack after a Johannesburg H…
Colonel Gavin Jacob appeared before the Madlanga Commission in Durban on Thursday, flatly rej…
A Nigerian judge on Wednesday delivered verdicts against five defendants accused of carrying out the deadly 2022 attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State. The mass shooting killed m…
A South African court ordered the immediate release of a man imprisoned in connection with a R2.9 m…