Newly-appointed Justice & Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola has announced plans to modernise and digitise courts, transform the legal profession, tackle corruption head-on and speed up necessary legislation, notes Legalbrief. Delivering his 'political overview' to the the National Assembly's Justice ...
Kenyan blogger Robert Alai faces a life sentence if convicted of publishing photographs of a terror attack in Wajir County last month. Legalbrief reports that he is accused of supporting sympathisers of the Somalia-based al-Shabab terror group. Anti-terror police who ...
Kenyan blogger Robert Alai faces a life sentence if convicted of publishing photographs of a terror attack in Wajir County last month. Legalbrief reports that he is accused of supporting sympathisers of the Somalia-based al-Shabab terror group. Anti-terror police who ...
In countries like the US, the growth of smart buildings is estimated to reach 16.6% by 2020. Smart buildings use technology to control a wide range of variables within their respective environments with the aim of providing more comfort and ...
Tech giant Google has been accused of ‘flipping the bird’ at New Zealand laws by refusing to change company policy after it broke suppression orders related to the murder case of British backpacker Grace Millane. According to a report in ...
Icasa will soon conduct an inquiry into regulations that compel pay-TV operators to carry the SABC’s free-to-air channels, and whether this should still be done for free. A Business Day report notes in 2008, Icasa introduced ‘must-carry’ regulations that force ...
According to a report in The Guardian, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has instituted federal court proceedings against Samsung, alleging the electronics giant misled and deceived customers with its claims about various Galaxy phones across more than 300 ...
A 22-year-old British entrepreneur has secured $4.6m from the early backers of Facebook for a ‘robot lawyer’ app that fights parking tickets, bank fees and unfair charges. According to report in The Daily Telegraph, DoNotPay, which was founded by Joshua ...
Hack attacks, ransom threats and theft of money through fraudulent transactions are all becoming a stark reality for legal professionals and law firms around the world, says a legal risk adviser. A Fin24 report notes Samantha Varela, of Aon SA, ...
The State Information Technology Agency (Sita) says it will be approaching the Constitutional Court in a matter involving the use of a critical IT system owned by embattled police supplier Forensic Data Analysts (FDA), according to a News24 report. This, ...
Ethiopia will award two telecoms licences to multinational mobile companies, a senior official said on Friday, in the first detailed announcement of the government’s plans for opening one of the world’s last major closed telecom markets. The government will also ...
An artificial intelligence tool that predicts who is at fault in insurance claims has been developed by top-50 firm BLM and the London School of Economics (LSE). According to a Law Gazette report, Foresight, which is one of seven digital ...