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BDF, which had embarked on a de-linking exercise involving linking salaries of BDF staff to their qualifications to improve and adjust salary scale of officers, found itself before the court of law fighting with some of its officers for the mistake...

The land board has been in legal tussle with nine employees who accused the Land Board of failing to subdivide and allocate them ploughing fields despite the approval of their application to that effect in 2019. The Land Board had failed to file...

Seretse, entangled in a persistent battle with the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) over the alleged missing funds, lost his assets around September 2021. Justice Omphemetse Motumise of the Gaborone High Court had ruled at the time that he...

Thea was arrested in 2022 with his husband former Member of Parliament for Serowe West, Tshekedi Khama and his twin brother, Anthony. The trio was allegedly arrested in relation to investigations carried by the DIS into former president Ian...

BOSETU has taken BIUST to the Industrial Court arguing that the university breached the Collective Labour Agreement (CLA), which was concluded and registered by the two parties.The union, in its court papers, said the CLA was put in place so that the...

The university, which is at loggerheads following accusations by BOSETU for unilaterally implementing the statutes and therefore breaching the Collective Labour Agreement between the parties, said it ditched the union for its unavailability for...

The Land Board remained neutral initially, but as the dispute over the land escalated, it sought to be joined in the proceedings.However, Justice Motlhabi dismissed the application, stating that the Land Board failed to specify how it would be...

Katlholo, who in May 3, 2022 while out of the country woke up to the news of the DIS raiding and sealing the DCEC office said he had to spring into action in his own personal capacity to protect his then agency contrary to State argument that he has...

"Yes, I am a fugitive from injustice. I have not read the judgment because I don’t waste my time reading something that was predetermined. That is a fact," he said.The High Court, delivered the judgment on Tuesday, through Justice...

The Attorney General (AG) representing the DIS appeared before the CoA last Thursday, appealing a judgment that ruled in favour of former Director-General of DCEC. Tymon Katlholo had taken the DIS to court in protest over the raid, which occurred in...

Delivering an address at the official opening of the Legal Year on Tuesday, Abram explained that there has been a review of rates for legal costs by practising attorneys in order to curb high litigation costs. “Statutory Instrument No. 1 of 2021,...

“Judges cannot defend themselves; they cannot go to a freedom square and start speaking on attacks. In this context, I wish to request members of the public to refrain from attacking judges in the private press and social media platforms. This is a...

The Board is currently seeking to overturn a judgment favouring nine former employees involved in a clash over land allocation.The former employees, some reinstated and others with pending cases, accused the Land Board of failing to subdivide and...

Estate Construction, owned by one of Sebina brothers, had dealings with the council over the construction of a bus terminus in Molepolole before things turned sour.In its defence against an appeal filed by the KDC before the Court of Appeal (CoA),...

The intelligence agency was disputing damages awarded to the Sebinas after they won against the Directorate in a civil suit for reputational damage and humiliation. The DIS had accused them of criminal dealings with former head of the Directorate,...