DELAY, delay, delay – that seems to be the overbearing and intractable theme within our justice system. There is often a long delay before matters are detected, arrests made and charges laid. Then, there is another set of delay within legal proceedings, once commenced, involving legal manoeuvring by defence attorneys on the one hand and
TWO convicted prisoners, together serving sentences of more than six decades, will return to the High Court for a review of their sentences after a judge held that the delay by the prison authorities in reviewing their prison terms was unconstitutional.
IN A COUNTRY with a long track record of multiculturalism as ours, the facts at the centre of the case of Imam Shazim Mohammed are startling. Yet, from a certain vantage point his treatment at the hands of prison authorities is not surprising. It serves as a chilling reminder of the challenges faced by societies
A HIGH COURT judge has ordered compensation for a Muslim man who was forced to shave his beard during his incarceration and debarred from engaging in religious activities in a religious discrimination lawsuit against the State.
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