By AFAM BELOLISA On occasion, I have half-joked to my lawyer-friends that most legal principles and practice are simply based on common sense (even if they are sometimes expressed in Latin!) For instance, except with regard to the filing of ex parte motions, why would a defendant’s counsel be expected to appear in a matter […]Continue Reading
Many arguments have been advanced as to the feasibility of Democracy in Africa. The operators, unable, or unwilling, to manage the tools of navigation have often said we are not ripe for Democracy. Others have argued that even from the point of view of tradition and vocabulary, the African soil cannot sustain the growth of […]Continue Reading