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By Alex Enumah A Judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Ejembi Eko yesterday called for the suspension of the immunity of a president and governor who goes against Electoral Act. But in the provisions of the constitution, a serving president or governor cannot be prosecuted for any alleged infractions of the country’s law while still in office. However, speaking at a workshop for the review of Elections Petition Tribunal in the 2019 General Election held in Abuja, Justice Ekwo said such suspension would pave the way for prosecution and subsequent punishment if found guilty of breaching elec...

By John Hyde2021-04-14T06:50:00+01:00 Fromer Family Division president Sir James Munby has used a foray back onto the bench to launch a stinging criticism of the costs accrued and directions ignored in lengthy family court disputes. In a ruling on whether the English court had jurisdiction to hear a Children Act application from a French mother, Munby said it was necessary to add a final comment on the sums involved in what he called ‘preliminary skirmishing’. The former president, who retired from the post in 2018 but continues to sit on certain cases, explained that the costs incurred...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In 1995, Elizabeth Loftus and Jacqueline Pickerell published a paper showing that it was possible to implant an entire false memory of something that never happened. In one of the first successful cases of memory implantation, the subject was supplied with three true events that happened in his childhood and one false one: that he had been lost in a mall as a child. The subject came to believe he had in fact been lost in the mall. The Witness Evidence Working Group was born, in Spring 2018, out of a concern on the part of the judges...

This article discusses the significant Supreme Court decision in Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc(1) which considered parent company liability. This decision on jurisdiction provides helpful guidance on the circumstances in which a UK-domiciled parent company may owe a common law duty of care in respect of the actions of a foreign subsidiary. Facts The claimants, comprised of 42,355 individuals from the Niger Delta region, brought a claim in negligence against Royal Dutch Shell (RDS), incorporated in England, and one of its Nigerian subsidiaries, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria ...

Contact after Findings of Domestic Abuse Teena Dhanota-Jones, Consultant at Simons Muirhead Burton, analyses a recent case involving the interplay of the law on contact and Practice Direction 12J on domestic abuse.   Simons Muirhead Burton. analyses a recent case involving the interplay of the law on contact and Practice Direction 12J on domestic abuse. Introduction R (no order for contact after findings of domestic abuse) [2020] EWFC B57is an important case heard at the Family Court in Oxford by HHJ Vincent. It involved the application of the law on contact and PD12J on domestic abuse. HHJ ...