Nigeria: The State v Henry Emomotimi Okah

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On 23rd February the Constitutional Court handed down a unanimous judgment in the consolidated applications in the State v Okah matter.

This followed the November 2017 hearing in which the Constitutional Court deliberated on the issues of whether South African courts possess extra-territorial jurisdiction for crimes of terrorism and serious offences committed outside South Africa; and whether this was limited to prosecutions for the financing of terrorism only.

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