Crime
Houseboy jailed for defiling his employer’s daughter
Augustine Owusu was charged with defilement. He has pleaded guilty.
GNA
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Europe
France passes law to protect children from suspected abusive parents
The lower-house National Assembly gave its green light to the bill on Monday, with the upper-house Senate approving it on Tuesday.
Local France
Crime
Businessman granted GH₵100k bail over alleged fraud
The Court, presided over by Mrs Klorkor Okai-Mills, granted him bail after he had pleaded not guilty to the two counts of defrauding by false pretense and issuing a false cheque.
GNA
Courts
Ghana Police secures injunction against planned December protests
The groups - Democracy Hub Ghana, Patriotic Hub, and the Patriotic Forum for Accountable Governance in October notified the police of their intention to hold protests at the Jubilee House throughout December
DL News
Crime
Four granted￠160,000 bail for alleged murder
Jamilah Issaka, 24, and Abigail Avoryi, 28, are apprentice hairdressers and Tay William, 31, an illegal miner were granted GH￠50,000 each with two sureties each.
GNA
Crime
Electrician convicted for defiling JHS pupil
Desmond Kwofie aged 24, was said to have committed the offence when his wife was pregnant and pleaded not guilty to the charge of defilement.
GNA
General
In-House Bar swears in national executives
Following the amendment of the Ghana Bar Association’s Constitution last year, three sub-national groups were created in addition to the Regional bars
DL News
General
66 Bills to be laid before Parliament on resumption
Eleven Bills are currently at the committee level, of which seven are Public Bills and four are Private Members bills.
GNA
US
Former Top Aide to Pence, Marc Short Has Testified Before January 6 Grand Jury
In January of this year, Short made an appearance before the House select committee investigating the January 6 incident in response to a subpoena
DL News
Supreme Court News
Voting, passage of E-levy by 136 MPs unconstitutional, null and void- Haruna Iddrisu, 2 MPs to SC
According to the plaintiffs per the authority of the case of Justice Abdulai v. Attorney General, the constitutional quorum for decision-making and voting in Parliament per Article 104(1) is 138 MPs present in the Chamber but not 136.
DL News
General
Representation for SALL: AG pushes for fresh Buem Parliamentary polls, MP disagrees
“Even if the C.I. is laid in this House today and the same comes into force after 21 sitting days of Parliament, the Guan Constituency can only come into effect after 6th January 2025,”
DLN
General
Majority to disallow Assin North MP from partaking in Parliamentary business – Atta Akyea
Samuel Atta Akyea said once the High Court has declared the MP as a non-legislator, he cannot be allowed to be in the House.
DL News
General
2022 Budget approval unconstitutional- Minority in Parliament
According to them, the move contravenes Article 104(3) of the Constitution, 1992, and Parliament’s standing order 109.
DENNISLAW NEWS
General
Parliament approves 2022 Budget despite Minority Caucus boycott
The First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei Owusu also counted himself as an MP, hence, giving the Majority Caucus 138 members to pass the votes.
DL News
Crime
27-year-old mental patient murders grandparents in cold blood
We just heard some unusual noise in the house and when we came out from our rooms we saw the suspect had broken into the room of his grandparents and slayed the couple with their bodies lying in a pool of blood”
DL News
US
Capitol riot: Judge rejects Trump bid to withhold records
The legal battle is likely to wind up at the Supreme Court.
DL News
General
Manner of attempted arrest of Sosu offends Constitution – Speaker of Parliament
The Speaker assured Ghanaians that he he swore an oath at his election as Speaker to discharge his duties and to uphold, protect and defend conscientiously the Constitution of Ghana and would continue to do just that.
DL News
Business
Ayariga urges Parliament to fast-track probe into collapse of UT bank, uniBank
Mahama Ayariga wants the House to be furnished with an update on the matter and urged the committee to resume work on the petition in earnest.
DL News
General
Hearings on anti-LGBTQI+ bill to be made public
The bill known as the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021 has generated debates all over the country and beyond. Initiated by eight members of Parliament, it seeks to criminalize LGBTQI+ activities...
DENNISLAW NEWS
Crime
Dozens Of Qnet Agents And Recruits Arrested In Koforidua
QNET’s entrance into Ghana is opening the space up for more entrepreneurial opportunities for the youth and Ghanaians in general”
DL News