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New statutory provisions have come into effect that will modernise the way documents are filed with the Official Receiver in Hong Kong. The changes, which took place on the last working...

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The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation made the call at a two-day workshop on Monday.

The AGF called for the implementation of non-custodial measures and sentencing guidelines under the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, to reduce the country’s growing number of awaiting trial inmates.

The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) programme, over the past decade, has reduced the load on the courts by 32,745 cases, a Justice of the...

Credible elections are very vital to the sustenance of credible democracy. As such, facilitation of transparent electoral process must put into consideration the determination of legal challenges to election related disputes, which is regarded as sui generis.

That sexual and gender-based violence has assumed a frightening proportion is an understatement, and should be stopped forthwith. Women are not punching bags; they are mothers! Children, on their own, are bundles of joy to any family or household, so they should not be subjected to any form of trauma or maltreatment. Rather, they deserve…

According to data released by the Ministry of Justice 63% of cases listed in 2022 and 69% of cases listed in Q1/Q2 2023 in the Commercial Court involved at least one non-UK registered...

The long-running investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) has provided several points of instructive guidance during its...

Despite the heat of the revolutionary atmosphere, I issued a writ against them and they came to seek settlement. Unsurprisingly their terms of settlement centered around smoking the peace pipe in the form of sharing a roasted fowl. I rejected this and kept to the writ.