Rwanda Case Law

TWAGIRAYEZU N’ABANDI v TWAGIRAYEZU N’UNDI (ADD)

Court

Supreme Court

Case number

RS/INJUST/RC 00007/2020/SC

The High Court failed to provide its own reasoning and merely copied the first instance judgment verbatim without stating agreement or independent analysis. Therefore, the applicants were not dismissed on the same grounds in both courts, and the second appeal should have been admitted.

Source excerpt

• Judicial plagiarism
• Admissibility of second appeal
• Family property disputes
• Motivation par référence

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TWAGIRAYEZU ET AL. v TWAGIRAYEZU ET AL

Court

Supreme Court

Case number

RS/INJUST/RC 00007/2020/SC

The Supreme Court of Rwanda held that the Court of Appeal wrongly treated a plagiarised High Court judgment as a valid basis to bar a second appeal.

• Judicial plagiarism
• Appeals
• Ownership disputes
• Grounds for appeal
• Jurisdiction
• Judicial-plagiarism

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