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General
Police Officers will wear name tags – IGP
What we want is a coordinated information system and stories needed to be written right and timely
DL News4 November 2021
Courts
Chief Justice calls for calm over JUSAG salary concerns
We are going back to work while the Chief Justice and the leadership of JUSAG engage with government to find a solution to the problem,” the president of the association, Alex Nartey said.
DL News2 November 2021
General
Ban on ‘aboboyaa’: You can’t use LI to take one’s substantive right-Legal practitioner
“If you intend taking away a person’s substantive right granted under the law, you would have to amend the substantive law and in this particular case a person who has obtained the licence to drive either a car or tricycle or motorbike unde...
DL News29 October 2021
General
Speaker Bagbin grants Sosu’s request for contempt against two policemen
He invoked the powers of Parliament under Article 117 of the 1992 Constitution and Order 28 of the Standing Orders of Parliament, and said ACP Isaac Kojo Asante, Regional Operations Commander, and ACP Eric Winful, Divisional Commander, Aden...
GNA28 October 2021
Business
Reconsider your view that SDR constitutes ‘free money’- Adongo to BoG Governor
In a 4-page letter addressed to the Governor, Mr. Adongo referred to a response attributed to the BoG Governor during the recent MPC Press Conference in which he(The Governor) suggested that $300 million of the SDR equivalent will be surren...
DENNISLAW NEWS27 October 2021
Courts
Court to deliver judgment on Akuapem Poloo’s appeal case on December 1
Akuapem Poloo had been accused of violating the dignity and integrity of her severn-year-old son when she published a photo in which she knelt, stark naked in front of her son ahead of his birthday.
DENNISLAW NEWS25 October 2021
Election Petition
Blame EC for electoral fraud in Cape Coast MCE election – Assembly Members
This claim was nonetheless reported to Accra-based JoyNews by one of the Assembly Members who noted that “somebody snatched some of the ballot papers. We didn’t know the number and what was going on
DL News18 October 2021
General
Opuni Case: SC sets October 26 for ruling on AG’s review motion
Mr.Opuni’s lawyers noted that the above statements were only made available to them when they applied for them and withheld by state prosecutors.
DL News12 October 2021
Africa
Kenya and Somalia await key sea border ruling
Kenya filed an objection to the court case, arguing that the memorandum of understanding was binding.
DL News11 October 2021
US
Ohio police probed after man screaming ‘I’m paraplegic’ dragged from car
Jerome Dix, president of Dayton Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 44, said they had “followed the law, their training and departmental policies”.
DL News11 October 2021
Africa
California bans non-consensual condom removal during sex
The bill was supported by the Erotic Service Providers Legal, Educational and Research Project (ESPLERP), an advocacy organisation founded and run by Doogan.
DL News11 October 2021
US
Global tax deal seeks to end havens, criticized for ‘no teeth’
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Paris would use its European Union presidency during the first half of 2022 to translate the agreement into law across the 27-nation bloc.
DL News9 October 2021
Asia
Malaysia summons Chinese envoy over South China Sea ‘encroachment’
According to the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative China has 27 outposts in the disputed waters and also controls Scarborough Shoal, which it seized from the Philippines in 2012.
DL News7 October 2021
Europe
France threatens to cut UK and Jersey energy supply in fishing row
We took note of last week’s announcements, but regret that with the number of licences granted it still has not been possible to bring this issue to an end now.
DL News7 October 2021
General
Ejura Committee Recommendation: Mere transfer of Police Commander not enough-NDC
On the part of DSP Philip Kojo Hammond, the Committee notes that he incompetently handled the Ejura situation, and his relationship with the Ejura community has been damaged beyond repair.
DL News6 October 2021
General
Hon Xavier Sosu petitions Speaker to probe mass failure in 2021 law school entrance exams
A statement released by the National Association of Law Students indicated that the Ghana School of Law had projected to only admit 550 students in page 186 of the 2021 budget statement.
DL News6 October 2021
Courts
Electrician jailed 24 years for defilement, incest
“When the accused heard the young man had denied responsibility, he took the victim to LEKMA Hospital at Teshie Nungua and aborted the pregnancy in July this year,
DL News28 September 2021
Crime
Remove Ejura MCE, transfer DSP Kojo Hammond-Ejura Committee Report
It notes that the MCE, Mohammed Salisu’s presence is likely to worsen the already tense security situation at Ejura.
DL News28 September 2021
General
Inheritance rights: Duration of marriage before death of spouse immaterial – Minkah-Premo
e big question of whether the mothers of children who were not married to the fathers can benefit, unfortunately, in this current draft, no provision is made for it…..if you look at Article 22, it talks about spouses, it doesn’t talk about...
DL News20 September 2021
Asia
No skin-to-skin contact: India ‘outrageous’ sexual assault order struck down
The accused tried to bring down the salwar [pyjama bottom] of the girl and even then bail was granted,”
DL News17 September 2021