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17 American, Canadian missionaries kidnapped by gang members in Haiti
CNN has reached out to the Haitian Justice Ministry and the National Police but they have not yet commented.
DL News18 October 2021
Africa
Former Algerian president’s brother jailed
Mr Louh will serve six years while Mr Haddad will be in jail for two years.
DL News13 October 2021
General
Parliament won’t disappoint Ghanaians in LGBTQI+ Bill passage— Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu
We have nothing to hide because the issues are out there in the public space.
DL News13 October 2021
General
Family of Kaaka respond to Ejura Committee findings that his death was linked to family feud
The Committee was established by President Akufo-Addo to investigate the circumstances surrounding the disturbances in Ejura following the killing of Kaaka. Following which the report, known as the Justice Koomson Committee of Inquiry Repor...
DL News5 October 2021
General
Amend constitution to allow election of AG, Special Prosecutor – UG Law Lecturer
The Lecture organized by the Chief Policy Analyst at the Ghana Institute of Public Policy Options Dr Charles Wereko Brobbey is to celebrate Former Finance Minister Kwadwo Baah Wiredu who died in 2008.
DL News1 October 2021
Crime
Suspected thief made to weed acres of land as punishment at Bibiani
The assemblyman for the area, Zakari Mubarik, who rescued the suspect, told Adom News that his reign seeks to eradicate the mindset of instant justice.
DL News23 September 2021
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The constitution has created an authoritarian presidency – Charles Abugre
The Constitution Review Commission, chaired by Professor Albert Kodzo Fiadjoe in its report in 2011, recommended that the practice of combining the offices of Minister of Justice and Attorney-General may be continued at the discretion of th...
DL News31 August 2021
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AG reveals 163 prison inmates are currently on death row
Clause 2 of the Constitution (Amendment) (Entrenched Provisions) Bill provides for the abolition of the death penalty.
DL News29 July 2021
General
Anti-LGBT Bill: Let us create gay prisons as well – Researcher fumes
According to Justice Abdulai, the Anti-LGBT bill is a very beautiful piece of legislation that should be passed into law.
DL News26 July 2021
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Watch comments you pass about children, they could be criminal – Legal practitioner advises
“It is up to us to make people aware that these things are criminal, the same way that somebody who goes to defile a child can be arrested, can be prosecuted, and possibly jailed for such acts, you can also go through the same process,” she...
DL News16 July 2021
General
Phar Rangers Football Club appeals its 5-year ban by the GFA
The Disciplinary Committee has found the club guilty of the charges and will now cease to exist for the next five years.
DL News2 July 2021
US
Extradited Ghanaian national sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison for multimillion-dollar money laundering conspiracy
The prosecution of this case is being handled by the Office’s Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit. Assistant United States Attorneys Sagar K. Ravi and Mitzi Steiner are in charge of the prosecution.
DL News2 July 2021
Crime
Police arrest two persons over Kaaka murder
The suspects, Isaka and Fuseini Alhassan were apprehended at about 10:45 pm on Monday, 28th June 2021.
DL News29 June 2021
Africa
Mozambique prison prostitution exposé prompts inquiry
Mozambique’s Justice Minister is to investigate reports that staff at a women’s prison have been forcing inmates into prostitution.
DL News17 June 2021
General
Child Labour: One out of every ten children in Ghana are victims
Any work that deprives children of their childhood, their dignity, inhibits their potential and that is essentially harmful to their physical and mental development can be rightly classified as child labour.
DL News14 June 2021
General
Enact anti-LGBTQI+ laws to make clear our identity as Ghanaians – Deputy Justice Minister-designate
Three weeks ago, 21 LGBT rights activists were ambushed and arrested by a team of journalists and police officers
DL News12 June 2021
General
Stop using the media to disparage ‘senior figures’ – Dame to lawyers
The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has chided lawyers in the country who use social and traditional media to run down “senior figures”.
DL News27 May 2021
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Law School seeks govt support for new structure
The acting Director of the Ghana Law School, Mr Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang, has appealed to the government to support the construction of an intended multipurpose structure to facilitate academic work in a more spacious environment.
DL News13 April 2021
General
Scrap law school entrance exam – MountCrest Rector
MountCrest University College (MountCrest) has held its 10th matriculation ceremony with a call for an overhaul of Ghana’s legal education system, and the immediate scrapping of the entrance examination for the Ghana School of Law.
DL News23 February 2021
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Agyapa deal: Amidu was not mandated to submit a report to Akufo-Addo – Godfred Dame
The Minister-designate for Attorney-General and Justice says the former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu was not obliged by law to submit the Risk of Corruption Assessment Report he conducted on the Agyapa Mineral Royalty transaction to Pre...
DL News13 February 2021