Civil evidence, Civil Procedure, Witness statements The “exhibiting” of documents to witness statements and affidavits is common. It is surprising how common it is for the exhibit, and the witness statement, to fail to comply with the rules. Here we look at the rules relating to exhibits and useful guidance in relation to the use …
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Disgraced junior lawyer MP’s jail term not unduly lenient, Attorney General rules MP Fiona Onasanya A disgraced junior lawyer turned MP who was jailed for perverting the course of justice will not have her three-month sentence extended after the Attorney General decided against referring her case to the Court of Appeal. Commercial property law specialist …
Court documents show baby was locked with his Nigerian mother for 12 days An eight-month-old baby was locked up by the Home Office in immigration detention despite being a British citizen, it has emerged. The details of the case appear in court documents revealing that the Home Office successfully won an appeal against a ruling that the …
AFP In our series of letters from African journalists, the editor-in-chief of Nigeria's Daily Trust newspaper, Mannir Dan Ali, considers why Africa's most populous country is struggling to educate its children. Nasir El-Rufai, the governor of Nigeria's Kaduna State, likes to make headlines. While receiving a visiting World Bank delegation recently, he revealed that a …
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Reuters/Simon Dawson Spreading the gospel. African immigrant populations in Britain are bringing with them a rapidly growing wave of Christianity. Southwark, a borough in South London, stands as a testament to this growth as it is now home to the biggest concentration of African Christians outside the continent. As many as 20,000 congregants are estimated …
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