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The High Court of Uganda holds that once the law has created a statutory procedure to address a grievance, then it is deemed mandatory to exhaust that alternate procedure before trying to seek the court’s discretion in availing the same remedies under judicial review
The East African Court of Justice holds that applicants have to discharge the burden of proving land eviction disputes on a balance of probability
An award of disability retirement benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury to a soldier who was once charged with an offence that could result in dismissal or punitive discharge does not prohibit changing the discharge certificate in order for it to be accurate and complete
The Supreme Court of Canada holds that section 2.4 (1.1) of the Copyright Act of 1985 on communication of a work to the public should be interpreted to mean that reproducing or performing a work online or offline should engage the same copyright interests and require the same royalties
The Supreme Court of India holds that in granting a mining site license to a party, the state must undertake the necessary due diligence to determine as to whether the site has been already allotted to another party before allocating it
The European Court of Human Rights holds that the age of a person is a means of personal identification and the procedure to assess the age of an individual alleging to be a minor, including its procedural safeguards, is essential in order to guarantee to him or her all the rights deriving from his or her minor status
Where summons are served notice within the prescribed period, or at all, such service is nevertheless effective for the interruption of prescription if condonation was subsequently granted
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights holds that the sum of KES 57 850 000 is sufficient for compensation for material prejudice and KES 100 000 000 as compensation for moral prejudice as a result of the differential treatment of the Ogiek Community
The Supreme Court of Seychelles holds that a party that brings proceedings on behalf of a legal person has to state that he or she is authorized to bring the said proceedings
The Constitutional Court of South Africa holds that a child was vulnerable to being stigmatized by her peers and loved ones hence imposing a criminal sanction for the use and/or possession of cannabis on a child infringed on her right to dignity
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