“Constitutional mandates are absolute rules of actions and decisions for those required to exercise same, and the failure of agency of State or an officer of the State to perform, or negligence in a timely performance of a duty mandated by the constitution is repugnant to that supreme and paramount law and is in total disregard to the sovereign will of the citizenry which may expose the nation to lawlessness and pose risk of undermining the democratic and law-abiding culture for which the constitution was promulgated.” Her Honor, Madam Jamesetta Wolokolie, Associate Justice of the Honorable Supreme Court of Liberia, speaking for the court in an Opinion during the October 2020 Term of the Court.
The Monrovia City Court has sent to jail a 25- year- old Guinea national identified as Mohammed Sylla for Murder and Aggravated Assault.
The newly elected Interim President of the Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation(KAICT) at the University of Liberia(UL), Grace Yeanay, has said the leadership is prepared to work along with the administration and along with the students to see that the institution moves in the right trajectory.
The family of the late Charloe Musu has officially requested the Government of Liberia(GoL), through the Ministry of Justice, to turn over their daughter's body for funeral arrangements and burial.
A Global Pact that requires democratic nations to bring to book all those accused of involvement in international crimes including former warlords in Liberia linked to war crimes and other egregious human rights violations that characterized the country’s armed conflict that spanned a decade has been endorsed by Liberia and dozens of other countries around the world.
Liberia’s Permanent Representative to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Moses Owen Browne and the Director of the Marine Environmental Protection Department of the Liberia Maritime Authority, Daniel Tarr, have both been sentenced to nine years each in South Korea, the Liberia Maritime Authority (LiMA) has announced.
Lawyers from the various government agencies including the Supreme Court of Liberia, the Liberia National Bar Association, the Independent Human Rights Commission and the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia on Friday, March 31, 2023 ended a 10-day training program on codification of Liberian Statutes and Supreme Court Opinions conducted March 20, 2023 to March 30, 2023.
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