Court tackles plagiarism claim in mining licence bid

A new judgment from the High Court in Namibia deals with claims by a Cabinet Minister that he cancelled a company’s mining licence because it put up misleading and plagiarised information when it applied to mine lithium. The Minister said the material was taken from a completely different report, and that it misrepresented the situation where the company wanted to mine. Did that mean the court had to decide whether plagiarism invalidated a contract? Carmel Rickard, in her A Matter of Justice column on the Legalbrief site, finds out.