Justice and fair-process in Botswana: wishful thinking ?

Justice and fair process are those flashy and politically loaded terms and/or phrases, which are vexatious and at times mal-adventurous in an attempt to gibe them once off and very precise meaning.

In this paper we would try to define them in the context of criminal justice in which they would mean criminal proceedings, which are conducted in such a manner that can be said to be an impartial and independent court of law, which is both substantive and procedurally fair. That is from the court a quo or the trial court up to the highest court of the land ,which is the court of appeal. In this article court shall mean courts of record hence customary courts shall be excluded in the meaning of the word "court".