Ibrahim Traoré, the leader of Burkina Faso, has banned judges from donning wigs that are symbolic of colonial French and British outfits. Colonial-era wigs have long been associated with foreign ...

Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traoré has banned the use of British and French colonial-style wigs by judges, marking a significant move to decolonise the country’s judicial system ...

In 1954 Sir John Verity lost his job because he won an argument. It was in his ninth year in office as Chief Justice of colonial Nigeria. Sir John arrived in Nigeria in October 1945 from the ...

Concerns as India replaces colonial-era laws with new criminal codes. Modi’s government says overhaul would make the country more just, but the opposition fears it would throw criminal justice ...

In the reorganisation of the court system that followed upon the conclusion of the constitutional conference, the Federal Supreme Court, FSC, was created in 1954. The regions had high courts from ...