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Civil procedure RCAA 00016/2020/CA

RWANDA DEVELOPMENT BOARD (RDB) v. NANIYA SEBIRIBIRI N’ABANDI

Court
Court of Appeal
Case number
RCAA 00016/2020/CA

The Court of Appeal held that the old civil code applied because the harmful act and claim arose before repeal, and it dismissed RDB’s appeal as inadmissible.

  • Retroactivity of law
  • Employer liability
  • Abrogation of statutes
  • Transitional provisions
  • Civil damages
  • Retroactivity-of-law
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Constitutional law [2015] 4 RLR

Re INGABIRE

Court
Supreme Court
Case number
RS/INCONST/0002/12/CS

The Supreme Court of Rwanda dismissed Ingabire’s constitutional petition, finding one challenged provision already abrogated and upholding genocide-ideology offences.

  • Constitutionality of criminal statutes
  • Freedom of expression
  • Genocide ideology
  • Legal certainty
  • Abrogation of statutes
  • Constitutional-law
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