Earlier than expected, the request for the extradition of Azruddin Mohamed and his father, Nazar Mohamed, came through from the US and was immediately acted upon by the Government. This has happened days before the opening of Parliament shortly after which  Mr. Azruddin Mohamed is expected to be elected Leader of the Opposition. Any expectation […]

This question that forms the headline of this article is before the Chief Justice in the case of Christopher Ram v The Attorney General and the decision is due to be given on June 26. Ram is asking the Court for an order that an individual can stand for elections to the National Assembly as […]

The institutions most often criticized by the Government and private sector officials are the banks. The most recent is that the banks are in the stone age. If the Government has the power to legislate, and the banks are among the most regulated institutions in the country, a relevant question is: having regard to the […]

Is there any lesson to be learnt by the dismissal by the Chief Justice of the case brought by three Mocha residents, Roxanne Allen, Junior Allen and Lashonda Ellis, for relief from the High Court for demolition of their homes, deprivation of their property rights, degrading treatment, among a large number ofother remedies?

With only minimal fanfare and little public notice, the National Assembly last week unanimously passed into law the Security Interests in Movable Property Bill 2024. The statutory protection of a credit system over immovable property has long been an aspiration of many who are and were involved in the financial industry. The need became evident as early as the late 1980s as […]