{"id":178579,"date":"2024-08-15T15:10:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T13:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-shanghala-to-push-on-with-legal-questions-move\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T15:10:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T13:10:26","slug":"namibia-shanghala-to-push-on-with-legal-questions-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-shanghala-to-push-on-with-legal-questions-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Shanghala to Push On With &#8216;Legal Questions&#8217; Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>Former justice minister Sacky Shanghala will continue with his attempt to have seven &#8220;questions of law&#8221; decided by the Supreme Court.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Shanghala says he intends to petition the chief justice against the dismissal of his application to have his criminal trial halted until the Supreme Court has decided the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">He informed acting judge Moses Chinhengo in the High Court at Windhoek Correctional Facility yesterday that he will address a petition to the chief justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The judge dismissed the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408150055.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former justice minister Sacky Shanghala will continue with his attempt to have seven &#8220;questions of law&#8221; decided by the Supreme Court. Shanghala says he intends to petition the chief justice against the dismissal of his application to have his criminal trial halted until the Supreme Court has decided the matter. He informed acting judge Moses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6393,4367,4706,724,257,6354,5152,11039,254],"class_list":["post-178579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-legal","tag-move","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-push","tag-questions","tag-shanghala","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}