There is no doubt an overwhelming national consensus that the current 1997 Constitution which came into being following the overthrow of the PPP regime in July 1994 is unfit for purpose. The flaws of such code have over the following 20 plus years preceding it served as a constant disruption[Read More…]
Justice
Gambian Marabout On The Run In UK
A Gambian marabout who was jailed in the United Kingdom for conning three women into giving him £150,000 by claiming that he had powers to solve their personal problems is on the run. Abdoulie Gassama, 36, escaped from HMP Sudbury in Derbyshire on Monday, where he was serving a seven-and-a-half-year[Read More…]
Gov’t, Lawyers Push To End Lack Of Access To Justice In Gambia
(JollofNews) – As efforts are being made by Gambia government and some members of the BAR Association for access to justice for all to become a reality, the issue of public interest litigation took centre stage during a just concluded lawyers’ confab. Gambia’s new democratic dispensation is graduallly taking its[Read More…]