A Coptic Christian woman in Egypt says she has won a legal battle to receive the same inheritance as her brothers. Under the Islamic Sharia inheritance laws the country mainly relies on, female heirs inherit half that of male relatives. Huda Nasrallah, 40, brought the case to test the legality of the statute. The human […]

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The Cassation bench of the Supreme Court of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has on July 14, 2019 rejected Agricom International’s (Swiss) plea for the annulment of an arbitral award in favor of the Ethiopian Trading and Business Corporation (ETBC). The final award was made in London by a five-member GAFTA (Grain and Feed […]

A judgment in the Pietermaritzburg High Court of KZN has been outstanding for more than six years, according to a list of late reserved judgments as of 31 December. The list was published by the Office of the Chief Justice (OCJ) on 20 March. According to the judicial norms and standards laid out in 2014 […]