226 results.
Opinion
This article aims to help raise awareness about the importance of legal and environmental due diligence in Ghanaian real estate transactions and provide guidance on how to effectively assess potential risks and liabilities to aid investors...
Douglas Nketiah Boahene and Prince Kojo Tabiri
Opinion
The Supreme Court on 18th January 2022 rendered its reasons in the case of of Republic v High Court, (Criminal Division 9), Accra Ex Parte Ecobank Ghana Ltd; Origin 8 & Anor (Respondents & Interested Parties). This is a case which bothered...
Justice Eric Kyei Baffour
Opinion
This Article explores the contradictions and conflicts in the theory of the Supreme Court, whilst emphasising that the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court is in fatal disarray and anarchy. The so-called jurisprudence of equality does not onl...
Daniel Korang
Opinion
The author assesses the implications of the Supreme Court's decision in Martin Kpebu v Attorney-General , particularly on the matter of bail and related offences
Derick Adu-Gyamfi
Opinion
The author inquires into the question of whether or not an ordinary Ghanaian can plead ignorance of law if found to be in conflict with the criminal laws of Ghana, drawing from the recent case involving Ghanaian entertainment personality, R...
Benjamin Tachie Antiedu and Goodnuff Appiah Larbi
Opinion
Matters of accumulated leave is a major concern of employers and employees. The author discusses the position of Ghana's law on employee leave benefits and whether an employee can accumulate extended periods of leave. The article discusses...
Ernest Osei-Afful
Opinion
Last week, we published an article written by Justice Eric Kyei Baffour titled "An examination of the case of Origin 8 and C.I. 132: A still born Piece of Law or an Austere Interpretation by the Supreme Court" in which the learned Court of...
Thaddeus Sory
Opinion
The author offers recommendations that would ensure that certainty is brought to the process of re-sealing in Ghana and would make the process simpler and straightforward
Reginald Nii Odoi
Opinion
The author analyses some cases where concubinage has been equated to a valid customary marriage and those that never qualified to be a valid customary marriage. He estimates further that concubinage should lead to a valid customary marriage...
Derick Adu-Gyamfi
Opinion
This paper analyses the circumstances under which estoppel and the statutes of limitation cannot be invoked as shield or even as a sword to override an act or conduct of any person which contravenes the Constitution 1992.
Derick Adu-Gyamf, Esq.
Opinion
It is widely accepted among land purchasers in Ghana that, there is a need to go an extra mile in due diligence before paying money to any person or entity who purports to own a land in Ghana primarily due to the dicey nature of our land ac...
Victor Owusu Asante Esq
Opinion
The burden of the author in this article is to review the law on Summary Judgment, discuss the two opposing views of whether same can be granted in land matters or not, attempt to fill the vacuum and draw a conclusion that a party may not b...
Frederick Gurah Sampson
Opinion
The author considers the definitive question of what COVID-19 will really do to international trade in Africa with recent advancements in establishing the AfCFTA secretariat
Alex Ansong
Opinion
The authors discuss how the COVID-19 and its associated restrictions have impacted some basic freedoms such as movement and liberty.
Frederick Agaaya Adongo and Martin Waana-Ang
Opinion
The author raises critical questions on the question of citizenship by birth and the ambiguous position of identification by a birth certificate
Richard Nunekpeku
Opinion
The paper interrogates the two positions and the recent attempt by the Apex Court to reconcile them. Was the Court able to rectify the ‘corrupted version’ of the estoppel per rem judicatam rule or just like Abedi Ayew, it is too late in the...
Justice Alexander Osei Tutu
Opinion
The writer lays more emphasis on how the Kodadja principle has gone under the knife on a couple of occasions especially in this century at the blind side of its numerous admirers
Justice Alexander Osei Tutu
Opinion
The author discusses the concept of limited liability and the creditors’ right to payment and offers some recommendations on creditors’ due diligence as a means of averting the ultimate termination of the right to the payment due to the ben...
Richard Nunekpeku
Opinion
This paper discusses, mainly, one category of workers: casual workers. Most employments or businesses use this phrase with the view of distinguishing these workers from another set of workers – permanent workers.
James Gawuga Nkrumah
Opinion
The author discusses the process of making a valid Will and the reasons for making a Will in accordance with law
Jacob Z. Soung
