It shouldn’t be possible for the state to criminally prosecute a person for exercising their legal rights. This was, however, exactly what happened to Mr Gongqose and other members of the Dwesa-Cwebe ...

In the Royal Bafokeng Nation "a king is a king by virtue of the people" (kgosi ke kgosi ka morafe). This was endorsed by the South African High Court in a decision extending the principle of direct ...

Maria Tickle: On the program today, customary law and Anglo-Australian law; can they mix? Next week the Northern Territory Law Reform Committee is presenting recommendations to the N.T. government on ...

Today, the Supreme Court decided Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States. In this case, the United States brought criminal charges against a bank that was an instrumentality of the Turkish ...

A private legal practitioner, Susanna Asaabea Nyampong, says marriage by proxy is legitimate under the country’s Customary Law but has its own limitations. She explained that so far as the families of ...

Let children be children.’ This is the one of the messages that resonated most with participants during the many meetings preceding and informing the reform of customary law, also known as Naath law.

Papua New Guinea’s legal framework intricately weaves together common, customary, and statutory laws, with customary law often taking precedence, says Nicholas Collier Papua New Guinea's (PNG) legal ...

Prof. Michael Ntumy of the Faculty of Law, Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), has urged Nigeria and other African countries not to give up in their quest to codify the customary ...