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Following Petitions About Delays in Court Proceedings

Chief Justice Clarifies Following reports of petitions to His Excellency the President from litigants regarding what they perceive to be the lack of lustre and inordinate delays in the manner their cases are being handled, the office of the Chief Justice has viewed that such petitions should be sent to His Lordship’s office. In a news release sent issued to this paper yesterday, the office of the Chief Justice noted that litigants are entitled to petition the President if only because they are...

CJ’s nationwide tour postponed

The scheduled nationwide tour by the Chief Justice of The Gambia, His Lordship, Honourable Abdou Karim Savage has been postponed, according to reports from the office of the acting Judicial secretary. A dispatch send to the Daily Observer yesterday indicated that the postponement is due to the prior engagement of all Chiefs and Regional Governors in a meeting in Banjul. According to the release, as soon as new dates are fixed, all concerned will be notified. “Regional Governors, Judges of...

Supreme Court Panel to Review CJ’s Decision on Constitutional Case

Having lost the legal battle in the Supreme Court at the hands of a single judge, the Chief Justice of The Gambia, Abdul Kareem Savage, UDP, NRP, and Momodou K. Sanneh, the plaintiffs, have filed a motion for the Supreme Court panel to review the Chief Justice’s earlier decision. The matter was recalled yesterday at the Supreme Court in a session presided over by the five-member panel. The plaintiffs had previously contested the recent Local Government Amendment Act of 2007.  The amendment gave...

Supreme Court sits today

The Supreme Court of The Gambia will sit today in full bench to hear the pending appeal cases before it. The country’s highest court was supposed to start sitting yesterday, February 4th 2008, but could not proceed due to settling-in of the visiting judges, said Justice Akomaye Agim, president of the Appeal Court of the Gambia. Commenting on the two weeks sessional sittings of the country’s highest court, the event which happens only twice in a year, Mrs M.T. Bisola Cole, principal registrar...

Delay in L/Gov’t Act battle

The ruling in the battle over the amendment to the Local Act has suffered a delay, following an adjournment by the Chief Justice (CJ). Justice Abdou Karim Savage, who has been presiding over the case at the Supreme Court, re-adjourned the case to Wednesday for ruling. This development cropped up after the counsel for the plaintiffs and the defendants met briefly in the Chambers of the Chief Justice. Parties to the case informed waiting reports that the case was adjourned to Wednesday. The...

Supreme Court to Rule on Constitutional Case

The Supreme Court, presided over by Chief Justice Abdou Kareem Savage, will Monday rule on the preliminary objection raised by the defendants against the constitutional suit before it. The defendants, the Attorney General and the Independent Electoral Commission  (IEC), raised a preliminary objection to the suit, arguing that the suit was not properly constituted and that it is an abuse of the court process. The defendants further argued that the Supreme Court lacks jurisdiction to entertain...

LOCAL GOVT. ACT BATTLE CJ sets for ruling

Chief Justice Abdou Karim Savage, who is the presiding judge in the ongoing constitutional amendment case at the Supreme Court, has adjourned proceedings to Monday, January 14 for ruling. This follows the submissions by Marie Saine-Firdaus, Attorney General and secretary of state for Justice, who is representing the state, Lawyer Amie Joof-Conteh for the IEC, and Ousainou AM Darboe, counsel for UDP, NRP, and the minority leader of the National Assembly, Hon Momodou Lamin Sanneh, who is also...

Chief Justice speaks

Statement By The Chief Justice Of The Gambia, The Hon Mr Justice Abdou Karim Savage, At The Official Opening Of The2007/2008 Legal Year At The Law Courts Buildings, Banjul On 2nd December 2007 Protocols Your Excellency To members of the judicial and legal sector, the legal year celebration is an opportune moment for stock taking, celebrations and reflection on the activities of the period under review. The sector has the constitutional responsibility to administer and deliver justice, and...

Gambian Chief Justice Presides Over Meeting of ECOWAS Chief Justices

Delivering the opening address at the just concluded second meeting of ECOWAS Chief Justices held in Abuja, His Lordship the Hon. Chief Justice of The Gambia, Abdoukareem Savage, stressed that apart from their traditional responsibility of protecting human rights,  safeguarding the independence of the judiciary and promoting the rule  of law, judges could, through the forum of the community judicial council, contribute to the  attainment of global development goals, such as poverty reduction...

Gambia’s CJ chairs Ecowas CJ meeting

The Gambia’s Chief Justice was elected to preside over a two-day meeting of Supreme Court Chief Justices of Ecowas members states on September 13th and 14th, in Abuja, Nigeria.  The meeting of the heads of judiciaries of Ecowas countries was convened to consider draft Rules of Procedure of the Community Judicial Council presented by the Judicial and Legal Affairs Committee and authorised to be prescribed by authority of the heads of state and governments in August 2006. Delivering the opening...