We are looking for a man with a hard heart; a heart of stone; a heart of a real man. One afternoon, a twelve-year-old girl goes missing near her village. The local police tell her mother and the villagers she has been taken by a wild animal. Five years later, a young government employee Amantle Bokaa finds a box bearing the label ‘Neo Kakang; CRB 45/94’. It contains evidence of human...

An insightful and illuminating compilation of essays generated from the ground-breaking ‘Women and the Law ‘ conference.  This conference held a torch above what was a current public debate focussing especially on judicial attitudes and their impact on women.  This selection of conference papers are published to inform a wider audience and remind us all that the work of reform of our legal...