Former Australian political staffer Bruce Lehrmann raped his colleague Brittany Higgins inside Parliament House, a judge has found in a defamation case. Mr Lehrmann has always denied sex took place at all and sued Network 10 over a TV interview with Ms Higgins. The outlet successfully defended the story as substantially true. Their report in...
The Transportation Commission of Namibia must reconsider an application for the renewal of the licence allowing the airline, FlyNamibia, to operate, a judge ordered in the Windhoek High Court yesterday. The order given by judge Esi Schimming-Chase gives FlyNamibia Aviation a second chance to have its application for the renewal of its scheduled air transportation...
The Fishrot fishing quotas fraud, corruption and racketeering trial will not be proceeding until April at least, following acting judge Moses Chinhengo’s dismissal of an application for his recusal from the trial. Chinhengo turned down an application by one of the accused in the trial, Nigel van Wyk, for his recusal in a judgement delivered...
Justice minister Yvonne Dausab did not give legal aid lawyer Eva Maria Phillemon a proper hearing before deciding, in the wake of remarks Phillemon made about Damara people, to withdraw her appointment as legal aid counsel in April last year, a Windhoek High Court judge has decided. The decision that Dausab made about Phillemon’s status...
An Afghan judge who has been forced to go into hiding from the Taliban was wrongly refused relocation to the UK, the High Court has ruled. The anonymous claimant prosecuted Taliban and Islamic State group members, and has since avoided an assassination attempt, the court heard. The UK government argued he had not worked closely...
Advocate Karen Blum-Marshall from Windhoek, who died in George, South Africa, at the age of 85 on 17 February, was the first female lawyer and first female acting judge in Namibia. Admission to the advocate’s profession in Windhoek in the 1960s was tightly controlled by South Africa. As the law required the applicant to be...
The High Court in Windhoek is set to hear arguments on Friday regarding the recusal of Zimbabwean Judge Moses Chinhengo from the ongoing Fishrot trial. Nigel van Wyk, a key figure in the scandal, is seeking the judge’s recusal, alleging bias and fears of not receiving a fair trial. Van Wyk’s lawyer, Mbanga Siyomunji, filed...
A Windhoek resident who spent more than 10 years in jail before being found not guilty in a repeatedly delayed robbery trial has suffered a defeat in a lawsuit in which he sued the prosecutor general for more than N$11 million. Petrus Shoovaleka’s prolonged detention was not arbitrary, but was in accordance with competent court...
Office of the Judiciary spokesperson Vikitoria Hango has confirmed that lawyer Slysken Makando, who has had past troubles with the Law Society of Namibia (LSN), is still being considered for an appointment as a judge. “His candidacy is still under consideration and no decision in that regard has yet been made,” Hango said. This comes...