Former fisheries and marine resources minister Bernhard Esau says he needs to get access to about N$3,5 million in his assets that have been placed under a Prevention of Organised Crime Act property restraint order, to pay his lawyers for past and future legal services. Esau says this in a sworn statement filed at the...
Two senior South African lawyers who ended up being convicted on charges under the Immigration Control Act after travelling to Namibia to represent some of the accused in the Fishrot fishing quotas fraud and corruption case have lost a second Supreme Court case about their unwanted encounter with Namibia’s criminal justice system. In an appeal...
The ongoing Fishrot trial has been suspended again after defence lawyer Mbanga Siyomunji filed a recusal motion against Judge Moses Chinhengo. Siyomunji’s client, Nigel Van Wyk, accuses Chinhengo of bias in his application, saying that he fears an unfair trial with Chinhengo on the bench. The recusal of Judge Chinhengo was first brought to the...
The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of two senior South African lawyers found guilty of offences under the Immigration Control Act after they travelled to Namibia to represent six of the men charged in the Fishrot fraud and corruption case. The appeal of senior counsel Mike Hellens and Dawie Joubert was dismissed in a...
Plea proceedings in the Fishrot fishing quotas fraud, corruption and racketeering trial have been postponed to Friday, due to the absence of two of the defence lawyers representing accused persons in the matter. Defence lawyer Florian Beukes, who is representing former minister of fisheries and marine resources Bernhard Esau, has been booked off for Wednesday...
One of the men facing charges in the Fishrot fishing quotas fraud, corruption and racketeering case, James Hatuikulipi, is asking the High Court to order the release of nearly N$6 million from bank and investment accounts that have been frozen or placed under a property restraint order, so that he can pay his defence lawyers...
The Supreme Court is considering its judgement on an appeal by two senior South African lawyers found guilty of offences under the Immigration Control Act after they travelled to Namibia to represent six of the men charged in the Fishrot corruption case. Deputy chief justice Petrus Damaseb and acting appeal judges Hosea Angula and Shafimana...
Justice minister Yvonne Dausab is disputing that former legal aid counsel Eva Maria Phillemon, whose appointment as a legal aid lawyer was withdrawn in the wake of remarks about Damara people that she made on social media, is still employed by the Ministry of Justice. Dausab’s claim about Phillemon’s status as a public service staff...
KHARTOUM, Nov. 6 — A Sudanese lawyers group on Sunday announced that more than 20 civilians were killed in Omdurman city, north of the capital Khartoum, as a result of exchanged bombardment between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). “Due to the escalation in the clashes between the two...