Africa
Liberia gets third female chief justice
She replaces Francis Saye Korkpor who retires this month after reaching the constitutional limit of 70 years.
BBC
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Courts
Restrain Tullow from violating Local content Regulation: GOGSPA seeks court injunction
According to the Writ of Summons, the plaintiff is praying the court for an order of interlocutory injunction against Tullow, its agents, assigns, etc. from violating the Local Content and Local Participation (Amendment) Regulations 2021(LI...
DL News
Europe
Ex-Manchester United star, Ryan Giggs to face retrial over assault and controlling behaviour allegations
Giggs is accused of assaulting his former partner, Kate Greville, causing actual bodily harm, and using controlling and coercive behaviour against her from August 2017 to November 2020.
Sky News
General
Revise Legal Professions Act to make it relevant today-UG Chancellor
She noted that the world has changed exponentially since the Act was adopted about 62 years ago thus the urgent need for its revision to reflect these changes and make the training of lawyers more relevant and in tune with today’s world.
DL News
General
Meet Dr. Kwaku Agyeman-Budu: New GIMPA Law Dean
His appointment at the youngest age of 37, makes him the fifth academic to be appointed to the office of Dean by the Governing Council of GIMPA.
DL News
Courts
Justice Sir Dennis Adjei sworn in as Judge of the African Court
His special swearing-in ceremony took place at the 66th Ordinary Session of the Court at Arusha in Tanzania.
DL News
General
Bantamahene calls for restoration of chiefs ‘Power of Summons’
According to him, chiefs wield much power especially in the local area thus need such power to liaise easily with the police to bring offenders to book and to deal with pertinent matters.
DL News
General
Odike apologises to Asante Bediatuo
On August 25, 2022, Nana Asante Bediatuo through his lawyer, Gary Nimako Marfo issued a letter in which he refuted and denied allegations made against him by the founder and leader of the United Progressive Party(UPP), Kwasi Addai Odike rel...
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Africa
Nigeria: AG to prosecute Law Lecturer and student over alleged malpractice at Bar final exams
Suspended law lecturer at the University of Calabar, Pascal Aboh was arrested for allegedly impersonating and re-sitting an exam for a student at the Nigerian Law School in Abuja.
The Nigeria Lawyer
Supreme Court News
Secretly recording a telephone conversation with others is a breach of their right to privacy, unconstitutional, inadmissible - Supreme Court
"To allow such deliberate violation of rights would encourage litigants to sidestep the rules of evidence and thereby undermine the integrity of court proceedings and bring the administration of justice into disrepute. "
Richard Osei Boateng
Africa
Rwanda: Why Bar Association suspended nearly 100 lawyers
The suspensions, according to the Bar's president, Moïse Nkundabarashi, range from one month to one year, depending on the severity of the offense.
AllAfrica
Europe
UK: Barristers vote to escalate strike action over pay
Criminal barristers in England and Wales have voted in favour of an escalation of strike action.
Sky News
US
US pharmacy chains ordered to pay $650m in Ohio opioids suit
In November, a federal court found Walgreens Boots Alliance, CVS and Walmart helped create an oversupply of addictive opioid pills.
BBC
Africa
South Africa: Police Minister ordered to pay $24,000 after unlawful arrest and detention
A Limpopo-based conservationist, who was arrested by 16 police officers on trumped-up charges and locked up in filthy cells for three days, has been awarded $24,000 (R400,000) in damages for unlawful arrest and detention.
AllAfrica
Africa
Judge gets death sentence for wife's murder
In a highly publicized trial, Mohamed Adel was found guilty after confessing to the crime in court and was sentenced to death.
VOA Africa
Supreme Court News
Supreme Court’s reasoning in striking out minister's power to issue licences for cannabis cultivation
In its full judgment, the court per a majority opinion by Kulendi JSC and supported by Dotse JSC, Dordzie JSC, and Mensa-Bonsu JSC, upheld the plaintiff’s claims thereby declaring the said section as null and void, unconstitutional.
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US
Rihanna's partner A$AP Rocky charged with two counts of assault with firearm
The US rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, allegedly pointed a handgun at a victim in November last year.
Sky News
US
Iranian operative charged in plot to murder former US national security adviser, John Bolton
The suspect, Shahram Poursafi, was identified by U.S. officials as a member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
VOA
Africa
Rwanda: Prosecutors to issue indictments electronically
The development is in line with easing the work of prosecutors, which will also lead to a reduction in the backlog of cases in the judiciary.
AllAfrica
General
Teaching law students How To Study Law, new book by Daniel Korang argues strategies
He equals his soon-to-be-launched book, ‘How to Study Law’ as the Ghanaian version of Glanville Williams’ Learning the Law.
DL News