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 ...

More often than not, when we think about customs and laws, we think of them as two distinct categories. Customs are encouraged, but optional: replying to an RSVP request, writing a thank-you note, ...

Owning your own home is a significant milestone. It transverses many layers of society and offers homeowners and their families security, emotional and financial stability, spiritual grounding and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

One of the most important disputes in the negotiation of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) at the United Nations is the question of whether the treaty should include a customary international law (CIL) ...