Journal of Legal Studies & Research

This paper explores the socio-economic, legal, and humanitarian challenges faced by Zomi Refugees from Myanmar who have migrated to Delhi, India. The Zomis, an ethnic group from northern Chin State, Myanmar, have fled to India in waves since the 1962 military coup. Fleeing decades of military persecution, forced labour, extrajudicial killings, and famine, many initially

This paper examines the language used in the distribution of executive powers in Tunisia’s 2014 Constitution and its impact on political stability in the first presidential term between 2014 and 2019. It relies on a critical comparative study of the linguistic choices used in explaining the mandates of both heads of the executive branch to

Subpoena being an instrument of law commanding the compulsory attendance of witnesses to court proceedings either to testify, produce documents or both is a tool that helps in the attainment of justice. The justice sector would have suffered a lot of setbacks in the adjudication of cases if not for this mechanism. This paper examines

Affirmative action policies have been lauded for contributing to equality and, at the same time, criticized for perpetuating reverse discrimination. In Zambia, women’s empowerment and the steps that need to be taken socially, culturally, economically, politically, and legally to ensure women’s empowerment and gender equality are topical discussions. Part of these efforts yielded gender affirmative

Labour law is crucial in identifying breach of care situations by employers to victim employees in industrial relations. As such, labour law has been used as means to punish a respondent’s negligence for breaching his contractual obligation of care towards claimants. In this light, an employer is liable for the breach of contractual obligation of

Since independence, the drive has been directed towards development, with part of the strategy being industrialisation through putting in place measures to attract and maintain corporate institutions. Today, Cameroon has emerged as a host to a wide number of companies, different in size, nationality, and nature of activities. Unfortunately, the strive to achieve economic development