29.03.2019-BONELA FILES AN URGENT APPLICATION WITH THE HIGH COURT
Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS, (BONELA) has filed an urgent application before the High Court of the Republic of Botswana in a case in which a form 5 student at a local Senior Secondary School in #Gaborone was barred from writing end of term examinations by the school authorities.
BONELA prays that the Court order the following:
a) that this matter be heard as an urgent application and the court dispense with the forms and service provided for in the Rules;
b) that the 4th Respondent’s decision to suspend 2nd Applicant from #Ledumang_Secondary_School on the 23rd March 2017 be reviewed, corrected and/or set aside;
c) that the Applicant file an application for judicial review reviewing the decision of the 4th Respondent on or before the 8th of April 2017;
d) that pending the institution, hearing and finalisation of the application for judicial review, the 4th Respondent be interdicted from implementing its decision to suspend the 2nd Applicant from school;
e) that the respondent be and is hereby ordered to pay costs of this application.
The case will be heard, in the #Lobatse_High_Court tomorrow, Wednesday the 29th of March 2017 at 14:30Hrs
For more information contact Dr.Bonolo Dinokopila BONELA Board Chairperson on 72273034 or the Director on +267 72385054
Tel +267 393 2516 or e-mail at bonela@bonela.org
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