Windhoek-based lawyer Dirk Conradie and a co-accused in a long-running trial in the Windhoek High Court, Sara Damases, have applied to be found not guilty after the prosecution concluded its case in their trial. A ruling on the application by Conradie and Damases for their discharge after the end of the state’s case in their...
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...
Justice minister Yvonne Dausab’s decision to withdraw the appointment of a legal aid lawyer in the wake of remarks she made about Damara people has been reviewed and set aside by a High Court judge. The withdrawal of Eva Maria Phillemon’s appointment as legal aid counsel was set aside by judge Orben Sibeya in a...
Three Zimbabwean nationals will go on trial for the murder of a nine-year-old girl in June this year, it was announced in the Windhoek High Court last week. Rachel Kureva and Caroline and Edward Nkata will plead to charges of murder, read together with the provisions of the Combating of Domestic Violence Act, defeating the...
The trial of three Zimbabwean citizens accused of murdering a nine-year-old girl in Windhoek four years ago failed to start as scheduled yesterday, after the defence lawyer representing one of the accused withdrew from the case. The trial of married couple Edward Nkata (40) and Caroline Nkata (39) and fellow Zimbabwean Rachael Kureva (41) was...
A justice ministry lawyer, whose appointment as a legal aid counsel was withdrawn in the wake of remarks about Damara people that she had made on social media, will have to wait for another month to hear the outcome of her legal challenge against the withdrawal of her appointment. A judgement on lawyer Eva Maria...
One of the lawyers involved in the Fishrot fishing quotas fraud, corruption and racketeering trial has told the presiding judge he will be asking him to step down from the matter. Defence lawyer Mbanga Siyomunji told acting judge Moses Chinhengo in the High Court at Windhoek Correctional Facility on Friday that he will file an...
Staff Reporter ADVOCATE Mbanga Siyomunji, representing Nigel van Wyk in the Fishrot trial, has pledged to file an application to recuse Acting Judge Moses Chinhengo from presiding over the trial. Siyomunji made this promise, assuring that it would be done by the end of the day, following a back-and-forth debate between him and the judge...
Former Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (Nimt) employee Ernst Lichtenstrasser, who has been convicted of murdering the two top executives of the institute, has dismissed the lawyer who handled his defence during his trial in the Windhoek High Court. Legal aid defence lawyer Albert Titus notified judge Christie Liebenberg in writing on Thursday last...
Nigerian Lawyer Zannah Bukar Mustapha Receives Prestigious Global Citizen Award Internationally recognized humanitarian, philanthropist, and Founder of the Future Prowess Foundation School in Nigeria, Zannah Bukar Mustapha, has been named as the 2023 recipient of the Global Citizen Award at the 17th Global Citizenship Conference in Dubai, UAE. LONDON, Nov. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —...