{"id":224330,"date":"2026-02-19T12:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-contempt-of-the-supreme-court-of-liberia-on-review-the-1980s\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:24:18","slug":"liberia-contempt-of-the-supreme-court-of-liberia-on-review-the-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-contempt-of-the-supreme-court-of-liberia-on-review-the-1980s\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Contempt of the Supreme Court of Liberia On Review &#8211; the 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">About 40 years ago, the now Senior Senator of Lofa County and Counsellor-At-Law, Joseph K. Jallah in 1986 was held for Contempt of Court by the Supreme Court of Liberia. Can we look at the history and decision of the case and penalty thereof under chief Juctice Joseph Nagbe, in the case: IN RE JOSEPH K. JALLAH?<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\">Senator Lofa County, contributing writer<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">In re: Joseph K. Jallah &#8212; Contempt of Court, LRSC 11; 34 LLR 392 (1987) &#8212; Heard November 26, 1986; Decided January 23, 1987.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">Context &amp; Conduct<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602180484.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 40 years ago, the now Senior Senator of Lofa County and Counsellor-At-Law, Joseph K. Jallah in 1986 was held for Contempt of Court by the Supreme Court of Liberia. Can we look at the history and decision of the case and penalty thereof under chief Juctice Joseph Nagbe, in the case: IN RE JOSEPH [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[26890,258,256,11454,6185,4712,1107,257,6399,254,9498],"class_list":["post-224330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-1980s","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-contempt","tag-court","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-review","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/224330","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}