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A high court in Namibia declared two colonial-era laws that criminalised same-sex acts between men unconstitutional on Friday, in a landmark win for the LGBTQ community in the southern African ...
LM & Others v Government of Namibia is a legal case regarding coerced sterilisation of three women in Namibia in 2005 and 2007. The women argued they had not properly consented to sterilisation due to not being informed of the contents of the consent form, not understanding the medical staff, or coercion by being told their caesareans would not be performed unless they consented to the ...
The trial is the longest and largest in the history of Namibia. While it started in 2003, the court case lasted more than 16 years, with High Court judgement being delivered in December 2015, and a Supreme Court challenge being launched in 2016 and still verdict pending.
The Supreme Court is the highest national forum of appeal. It has inherent jurisdiction over all legal matters in Namibia. It adjudicates, according to art 79 of the Constitution, appeals emanating from the High Court, including appeals which involve the interpretation, implementation and upholding of the Constitution and the fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed therein.
Namibia's Supreme Court was founded on 21 March 1990, the day of Namibian Independence. Although it has the Supreme Court of South West Africa as its predecessor, the latter was not a supreme court in the sense that appeals against its rulings would be allowed; the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa would hear those, and they would be prosecuted by the Supreme Court of ...
[27] [26] In January 2018, officials granted the couple's application to allow Digashu and their son to enter Namibia, as the High Court continued to review their case. [25] Another case, Seiler-Lilles v Government of the Republic of Namibia , was filed in 2018 by Anette Seiler-Liles and her German wife Anita Seiler-Lilles, together since 1988.
In 2012, LM&MI&NH versus the government of the Republic of Namibia, the women won their case at the High Court and awarded the women 1.2 million Namibian dollars in damages. [17] The ruling was appealed to the Namibian Supreme Court , which upheld the High Court ruling [ 18 ] but dismissed the claim that the women's positive HIV statuses were ...
Ordinary Namibians have used their right to vote to express anger at the party, choosing to support independent candidates in what become known as the "Save Namibia Campaign". Comedians and local figures, have dipicated the Fishrot Six in the infamous, "If not giving up was a person" phrase after the Fishrot Six's numerous court attempts to be ...