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Guinea-Bissau Coup: Nigerian Law Firm Drags Guinea Bissau Regime to ECOWAS Court over Detention of Domingos Simões Pereira & Four Others

10 Major existential risks to legal practice in Kenya- Peter Wanyama

LSK Elections 2026: Mombasa Law Society responds to Debra Ajwang on debate contribution

5th September 20205th September 2020

Today in History: Gani Fawehinmi Passes on

Today in history, Courtroom Mail remembers Chief Gani Fawehinmi who passed on on the 5th of September 2009.

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11th November 201911th November 2019

Yahaya Olarewaju wins the 2019 Male Lawyers Table Tennis Open(Mfon Usoro cup)

Yahaya Olarewaju has successfully defended his 2018 title by winning the 2019 Lawyers Table Tennis Open(MFON USORO) Cup.

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26th August 201826th August 2018

Today in history-The US adopts the 19th amendment allowing women to vote

The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution by proclamation of Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby. The […]

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6th May 20186th May 2018

Courtroom Mail History- Today in 1992 Gorbachev reviews the Cold War

In an event steeped in symbolism, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev reviews the Cold War in a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri—the site […]

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22nd April 201822nd April 2018

Courtroom Mail History: Today in 1886, Seduction is made illegal-The last Paragraph will make you laugh

Today in history,1886,Ohio passes a statute that makes seduction unlawful. Covering all men over the age of 18 who worked as teachers or instructors of […]

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16th March 201817th March 2018

The fascinating story of Tunji Gomez’s SAN Abolition Movement- How it all started- Anthony Atata

The Nigerian Bar Association, Lagos branch will on 16th of March 2018 begin an event to celebrate the 90th birthday of Tunji Gomez. Tunji Gomez […]

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18th February 2018

History: Courtroom Mail remembers the Green River serial killer who got 49 life sentences.

On this day in 2011, in a Kent, Washington, courtroom, Gary Leon Ridgway pleads guilty to the 1982 aggravated, first-degree murder of his 49th victim, […]

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11th February 201811th February 2018

History: On this day, Courtroom Mail remembers the release of a Lawyer,Nelson Mandela from prison.

On this day in February 1990, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was released from prison after 27 years.He will later become the President of South Africa four […]

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14th December 201714th December 2017

It is exactly 125 years since this Judgement was delivered-Lawyers across the world still remember

COURTROOM MAIL HISTORY The Judgement in Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company was delivered on the 7th of December, 1892 in England. The Court of […]

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14th November 201614th November 2016

Courtroom mail History:Remembering the horrifying massacre of Supreme Court Judges 30 years ago

On the 6th of November 1985,the Supreme court of Colombia was preparing to deliver the opinion of the Court in regard to the constitutionality of […]

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