Business
Ghana, Algeria ink visa waiver deal
The announcement followed a series of high-level discussions with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf.
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Crime
3 in court over double sale of land at Tse Addo
Holy Quaye, a 39-year-old farmer, Furgurson Adjetey Lomo aka Major, a 55-year-old businessman and Andrew Tetteh Boye aka T.T., an event organizer, are being held for making conflicting grants of a parcel of land.
GNA
General
Can the Special Prosecutor be impeached under Article 146 of the 1992 Constitution?-Lawyer Kwame Akuffo writes
The fundamental question which arises for pertinent consideration is as to whether or not the the Special Prosecutor, is an Office holder whose conduct can be the subject matter of Impeachment, under Article 146 of the 1992 Constitution.
Lawyer Kwame Akuffo
Crime
Defilement: Amend Act 29 to provide compensation for victims- Judge
According to her, such a move will encourage more victims and their parents to report such cases to the police rather than resolve them at home.
DL News
Supreme Court News
Why Ghanaian celebrities are in Supreme Court against FDA; Judgment set for April 10
The seven-member panel of the Supreme Court, presided over by Chief Justice Torkornoo, has meanwhile set judgment for April 10, 2024, after parties filed their Memorandum of Issues.
DL News
Africa
Shell exits Nigeria’s onshore oilfields in $2.4bn deal
The buyer, a consortium led by Nigerian independent energy company, Renaissance Oil, which includes ND Western, Aradel Energy, First E&P, Waltersmith and Petrolin, marks a significant change in the landscape of Nigeria’s oil industry.
BusinessDay Nigeria
Tech
Europe grows its own AI legal tech
Jimini AI, which is based on European law, is currently being tested by leading law firms in France
LAW.COM
General
Building Your own Legal Empire: Dare to be Different -Lawyer Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang writes
I remember at the Faculty of Law University of Ghana at our time, the most popular electives were Trade and Investment Law, Commercial Law, Private International Law. However, I chose with few others to study Natural Resources Law.
Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang, Former Director of the Ghana School of Law
General
Why lawyer wants only husbands’ property but not wives’ shared during divorce
According to him, this is one of the surest ways to save most marriages ‘which are tearing apart just because of issues of who is entitled to what.'
DL News
General
‘Enough of the lip service’ – GBA calls for passage of Conduct of Public Officers Bill
This Bill, when passed, will amend and help strengthen the current Public Officers’ asset declaration regime
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Others
Saudi Arabia grants first law practice licences to three foreign law firms
With the new amendments, the country aims to encourage firms to set up in Saudi Arabia so legal work is coordinated within the Kingdom, and to also enable high-profile deals stay within the country.
Gifty Danso
Courts
Canadian girls’ case: Four kidnappers convicted, sentenced to 40 years in prison
On June 4, 2019, a gang accosted two Canadian ladies, who had hired the services of an Uber ride at their hostel at Nhyiaeso, a suburb of Kumasi, assaulted them and forced them into a vehicle amid shooting.
GRAPHIC ONLINE
Courts
Kidnapping of Canadian Girls: Court to deliver judgment December 20
The four accused persons have been charged with conspiracy and kidnapping of two Canadian Girls in 2019 at Kumasi.
GRAPHIC ONLINE
US
Elon Musk fires entire Twitter board and makes himself sole director
The world's richest man is already proposing major changes for the social media platform as he embarks on his first week as its new chief executive.
Sky News
General
Law, Religion, Power: Participants of UPSA Global Law College ad idem on role of the state
In recent times, as if in keeping with the ‘religious opium’ view of the Marxists, churches especially in Ghana and Africa, are seen as perpetrating human rights abuses in their exorcist practices.
DL News
General
Lawyers must brace for competition under AfCFTA – UPSA Law School Dean
Lawyers must brace for competition under AfCFTA – UPSA Law School Dean
DL News
Tech
Ukrainian Legal Tech Companies Continue On Under Cloud of Russian Invasion
Since the beginning of the war, many legal tech founders and their employees have relocated, traded in their cubicle for a home office or started working periodically from a bomb shelter.
Law.com
General
Strain and stressors are the major cause of robbery patterns – Criminologist
“When people are exposed to a lot of strain and stressors, it creates a lot of frustration, and there is always what we call a relationship between frustration and our aggression.
JoyNews
General
Ghana Navy foils pirate attempt at Aflao
In September 2020, the Ghana Navy and Air Force also foiled an attempted pirate attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Takoradi.
DL News
Crime
Two sentenced to 72 months imprisonment for kidnapping
The facts of the case were that on July 17, 2021, a police patrol team on the Buipe-Yapei stretch on night patrols stopped a motorbike being used by Joli with Braima as the pillion.
DL News