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April 8, 2022

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (IDENTIFICATION) BILL, 2022
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INTRODUCTION The parliament recently passed THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (IDENTIFICATION) BILL 2022. The bill has drawn public discussions on the right to privacy. The purpose of the bill is to re-define ‘‘measurements’’ to include finger impressions, palm-print, and foot-print impressions, photographs, iris and retina scan, physical, biological samples and their analysis, etc, the bill also seeks…

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Vicarious Liability
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Introduction: Liability for commission of tortious acts generally only attaches to a person responsible for commission of such tortious acts. There however exists an exception to this general norm. Under certain circumstances, liability for commission of tortious acts attaches to a person who has not actually committed the tortious act, under the law of torts…

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