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GAMBIA: Former Bundung Magistrate On Trial for Missing 104 Cocaine Blocks Continue; Court Hears From Registrar, Chief CID & Businessman
Pa Modou Njie, a former Principal Trial of The State versus Pa Modou Njie, a former Principal Magistrate,
faces charges of dealing in prohibited drugs and official corruption before the...
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GAMBIA: Court Award Divorce Wife 50% Share of Tujereng Compound, Affirms Matrimonial Rights Under Women’s Act.
Justice Ebrima Jaiteh ruled that a husband's sole funding of a property does not defeat a wife's equitable interest; the husband's title-document objections...
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GAMBIA: Murder Accused Arona Tine Tells Court He Was Knocked Unconscious Before Kargbo Was Stabbed, as Defence Disputes CCTV Disclosure.
A Senegalese electrician, standing trial for the murder of Fatoumatta Kargbo, denies ever entering the bureau before the day of the incident, says three...
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GAMBIA: Court Restores NAWEC Prosecution Witness After Foreclosure Order Set Aside
Magistrate A. Manneh rules prosecution is entitled to call the key witness in the corruption trial of the Finance Director and Treasury Manager of...
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GAMBIA: Defamation Suit Against Africmed Director Returns to High Court; Medical Negligence Claims Take Centre Stage
A legal battle between former Africmed International Hospital employee Amadou Kabba and the hospital's Director, Dr Omar Jagne, has returned to the High Court...
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GAMBIA: Prosecution Seeks to Drop Charges Against Bonnet-Ride Accused, Citing More Serious Charges Ahead — Defence Cries Foul
The prosecution took a surprise turn in the case of Abdul Wahab Jobarteh at the Banjul Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, applying to withdraw all...
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GAMBIA: Alleged Murderer of Ba Yunusa M’bai Remanded at Mile 2 as Magistrates’ Court Transfers Case to High Court
Court finds it lacks jurisdiction to try a capital offence; orders accused held pending High Court appearance.
Momodou Bah, also known as “Area,” has...
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GAMBIA: Much Talk About Gold Saga: Dubia Firm Sues Gambian Gold Brokers Over USD$1.1 Million Alleged Fraud
Eight defendants face claims of fraudulent misrepresentation, fake assay certificates, and conspiracy to defraud. Court adjourns to June 29 after service failure.
A Dubai-based...
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GAMBIA: Court Admits Interrogation Recording in Jammeh Torture Suit against Gambia Armed Forces
The High Court Annex in Banjul, presided over by Justice Akinbiyi, admitted a downloaded audio recording of an interrogation session as evidence in the...
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GAMBIA: Bojang Appeal Counsel Mboge Moves Preliminary Objection, Matter adjourned to July
The Court of Appeal has adjourned the case of The State v. Ousainou Bojang and Amie Bojang to a date in July, after Counsel...
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GAMBIA: Much Talk About Gold Saga: Dubia Firm Sues Gambian Gold Brokers Over USD$1.1 Million Alleged Fraud
Eight defendants face claims of fraudulent misrepresentation, fake assay certificates, and conspiracy to defraud. Court adjourns to June 29 after service failure.
A Dubai-based...
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GAMBIA: High Court Rules Lifetime Gift Defeats Inheritance Claim in Wellingara Land Dispute
Justice Ebrima Jaiteh holds that Sally Badjie validly gifted a 16 × 40-metre portion of her Kombo North property to Ndey and Haddy Badjie...
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GAMBIA: Magistrate Krubally Discharges Manuel and Angelika Mitterer, Orders Return of Passports, Laptop and All Seized Assets
Magistrate Krubally has acquitted and discharged two Austrian nationals charged with disobedience to a lawful court order, after finding that the prosecution's own witnesses...
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GAMBIA: Court Gives Jamaican Man Half a House, Gives Gambian Wife the Other One — Then Orders Him Out of Both
Justice Ebrima Jaiteh rules on competing land claims at Mamuda Village in a 31-page judgment that navigates trust law, marital property rights and the...
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GAMBIA: Court Grants Bail to Alleged Cocaine Suspect, Cites Ghost Charge/Phantom Charge Provision.
Justice Ebrima Jaiteh ruled that Section 45(4)(b) of the Drug Control Act 2003, under which John Ebrima Carayol was charged, does not exist in...
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GAMBIA: High Court Upholds Magistrate Krubally’s Decision and Dismisses Ebrima Dibba’s Appeal in Sedition Charge
Justice Sonia Akinbiyi dismisses Ebrima Dibba's appeal, ruling that the Solicitor-General's prosecution of a sedition charge required no personal fiat from the Attorney General.
Justice...
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GAMBIA: Appeal Court Reserves Ruling in State Bid to Strike Out Chairman Yankuba Darboe’s Appeal
The Court of Appeal has reserved its ruling in a motion filed by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) seeking to strike out an...
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GAMBIA: ORYX Energy Mounts Nine-Ground Appeal Against D2 Million Won by Former Employee and Moves to Stay Enforcement of Judgment
Petroleum company files notice of appeal and stay of execution after two days of the High Court judgment, swearing it cannot recover the D2.2...
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GAMBIA: Kanifing Court Grants Bail to Bonnet-Ride Accused Despite Police Objection, but Abdul Wahab Jobarteh Spends Night at Mile 2
A Kanifing magistrate has granted bail to Abdul Wahab Jobarteh, the boy accused of driving off with a police sergeant lying on the bonnet...
