Search results for "Stay of Execution"

479 results.

General
Over 80% of Lawyers' applications fail at the Supreme Court – Justice Amegatcher
Over 80% of lawyers applications fail at the Supreme Court – Justice Amegatcher
DL News25 April 2022
General
Ghana Bar Association adopts new Bar Scale of fees
Agbesi Dzakpasu Esq moved the motion for the acceptance of the Scale of fees and was seconded by Perpetual Yankson Esq.
DL News20 April 2022
General
Ghana Armed Forces declares support for death penalty abolishment
Member of Parliament for the Madina Constituency, Hon. Francis Xavier Sosu in June 2021 introduced a private member’s bill for the removal of the death penalty from the Criminal and Other Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29).
DL News12 April 2022
Courts
Our external court sitting in Accra achieved over 90% success rate – ECOWAS Court President
He indicated that the Court delivered 20 judgments, the highest so far since the court began its external sessions.
DL News4 April 2022
Business
Crime in books than in Practice: Black Market Foreign Exchange Businesses in Focus
The operators, who are mostly African foreign Nationals, like Nigerians, Nigeriens, Malians, and the likes however give better rates than the official Forex bureaus in the exchange of currencies.
Dennislaw Research Desk25 March 2022
Africa
‘Ogoni nine’ Nigerian widows lose case against oil giant Shell
The widows believe a Nigerian operating company, that was part of the Shell group, had bribed the witnesses whose statements led to the conviction and hanging of their husbands.
BBC23 March 2022
Tech
Failure to patch and introduce MFA led to £98k ICO fine for Tuckers Solicitors
Tuckers patched five months after an NCSC alert flagged exploitation of a critical vulnerability, understood to be in Citrix. While it was not conclusive that the vulnerability was how the attacker was able to access Tuckers’ network, its d...
legaltechnology.com14 March 2022
General
‘Verbal coup threats shouldn’t warrant arrests’ – Obed Asamoah
“There is a difference between speech and action. [If I were the Attorney General] I will take action only when there is evidence of preparation to carry out a coup. If somebody is only talking, I will just take it to be over-excitement. I...
Citinewsroom3 March 2022
General
Student group to petition President, Parliament over UTAG strike crisis
UTAG’s strike has entered its fourth week; a development to which many are predicting the closure of universities soon.
31 January 2022
Asia
Japan death row inmates sue over same-day executions
The prisoners filed a suit in district court in the city of Osaka on Thursday, in what is believed to be a first, arguing the short notice doesn’t give them time to file an objection.
DL News5 November 2021
Africa
African Union must remove access to African Court impediments
African Governments must demonstrate their commitment to upholding the tenets of human rights by repealing article 34(6) to make way for entry.
DL News4 November 2021
General
It’s time to legislate on funding, executing of projects – Kofi Bentil
Touching on the President’s response on the E-blocks project in the Volta Region, he said the President’s remark was poor and not well calibrated insisting it is not right for him to defend his response.
MYJOYONLINE.COM25 October 2021
General
160 inmates on Ghana’s death row – Amnesty International
The Death Penalty violates the right to life as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
DL News12 October 2021
US
Expedite action on the bill to abolish death penalty-UNA-GH
At the end of 2020, at least 28,567 people were known to be under sentence of death. Of this figure, 483 executions were recorded in 18 countries in 2020, a decrease of 26% from 657 recorded in 2019.
DL News11 October 2021
General
Lack of understanding of tradition fueling Chieftaincy conflicts – Minister
Mr Kojo Kum called for stronger bonds and partnership among Traditional Authorities and government to bring development to the people.
DL News9 October 2021
Courts
Court grants student bail and issues bench warrant for Banker
Mr Amekplenu was arrested for investigation.
DL News6 September 2021
General
Akufo-Addo to Land Commission board: Fix land administration challenges
The president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has charged the newly constituted 25-member Lands Commission board to do everything possible to change the negative course of land administration in Ghana.
DL News2 September 2021
General
Govt denies spending GH¢ 600 million on agenda 111 before sod cutting
The amount, which is yet to be utilised, would be disbursed to contractors in accordance with the project work plan,
DL News20 August 2021
General
Auditor-General presents 12 statutory reports to Parliament – First in 10 years
The acting Auditor-General noted that Parliament’s Standing Order 165 (2) had assigned the PAC to examine the audited accounts of the government, showing sums of money granted by Parliament to meet public expenditure and of such other accou...
DL News9 August 2021
Crime
Collins Dauda, 4 others & the $200miliion Saglemi Housing Project : The facts
Only 651.75 acres of land out of the 2,172 acres of land made available by the MWRWH to the contractor for the project has been developed
DL News3 August 2021