Justice and fair process are the basic values underpinning constitutional democracy. This article defines them in the context of criminal proceedings in Customary Court in
Botswana. The Customary Courts Act excludes legal representation. For purposes of this article, the right to legal representation shall only be discussed in the context [...]
This article refl ects on the lunacy defence in Botswana from a mental healthpractitioner’s vantage point with the hope of adding to the discourse on thenation’s jurisprudence.
In particular, the paper asserts that the defence asarticulated in the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act of 1939, Cap. [...]
Adequate protection of minors from sexual exploitation by way of defilement should be the priority of every government. To this end, laws must be promulgated with the object
of affording the required protection. The crafting of such laws is by no means an easy task. [...]
From a historical perspective, the right to collective bargaining has often been rendered impotent by an interplay of factors. Before the major reforms introduced by the Labour
Amendment Act, the right to collective bargaining was nominally proclaimed but denied in substance. [...]
The role of law as an instrument of colonial rule in sub-Saharan Africa seems to have received inadequate attention in the historiography while on the other hand, the extraction
of African labour has received signifi cant coverage. This has meant that the relationship between punishment and labour has rarely been thoroughly investigated. [...]
This paper argues that using heterosexual norms on homosexual persons amounts to discriminating against this group. Botswana is among the thirty countries in Africa that criminalize
homosexuality and same sex sexual acts. The paper seeks to raise moral questions with regard to how lawyers and the general public in Botswana normalize heteronormativity [...]
RESUMEN EJECUTIVO El Proceso Penal guatemalteco fue reorientado hacia el sistema acusatorio con la entrada en vigor del actual Código Procesal Penal en 1994, de esto ha derivado
que múltiples reformas hayan sido necesarias para lograr que los principios de oralidad y celeridad que caracterizan al referido sistema sean incorporados a la legislación [...]
La presente tesis consiste en un trabajo de investigación cualitativa, con análisis jurídico doctrinario que consiste en estudiar la edad y otros factores que influyen como
restricción en el acceso al trabajo para mujeres trabajadoras en el municipio de Mazatenango, departamento de Suchitepéquez. [...]
El presente trabajo de investigación denominado: “Criterios utilizados en la reconstrucción de hechos en los juicios ordinarios tramitados en el Juzgado de Primera Instancia
Civil y Económico Coactivo de Suchitepéquez”, se desarrolló como requisito previo para optar al título de Licenciado en Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales. [...]
El Código de Comercio de Guatemala, es la normativa vigente en el país que regula las sociedades mercantiles y entre ellas la sociedad anónima que es la sociedad tipo en
Guatemala, cuyo elemento esencial lo constituye el capital social dividido en acciones; además por constituirse como una entidad anónima, es la más usada por los [...]
