Courts
Ashanti Regional GBA advocates ADR over media trials for business disputes
Speaking at the launch of the 2025 ADR Week in Kumasi, Kwame Owusu Sekyere, cautioned against using the media as a battleground for legal disputes.
DL News
Results for "appeal"
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Courts
Number 12 case:Court dismisses charges against Nyantakyi as Anas fails to testify
The case, stemming from investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ exposé titled Number 12, was dropped after the prosecution repeatedly failed to present its key witness, including Anas himself.
DL News
General
Speaker lifts 4 MPs’ suspension after cross-party appeal
The lawmakers were initially suspended after a heated vetting session for ministerial nominees spiraled into chaos, prompting the Speaker to take disciplinary action.
DL News
US
Trump's bid to halt sentencing in hush-money case fails at Supreme Court
Trump had requested the court to determine if he was entitled to an automatic stay of sentencing, but the justices rejected his appeal by a narrow 5-4 margin.
DL News
Courts
Ambulance case: Court of Appeal upholds Forson, Jakpa Submission of no case
In a 2-1 decision, the court overturned a previous ruling by the trial court presided over by Justice Afia Serwaa Botwe, which ordered the accused persons to open their defense.
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Supreme Court News
Company share transfer gone bad as Supreme Court jumps to Secretary’s defense
The five-member panel, in the opinion of Kulendi JSC, assessed the percentage shares of the transferee secretary of the company at 59% thus making her the majority shareholder.
Richard Osei Boateng
Business
BoG's revocation of UniCredit license was proper-Supreme Court
This judgment by the apex court thus affirms an earlier one by the High Court which cleared the Central Bank of any wrongdoing in the action.
DL News
Courts
Circuit courts lack jurisdiction to entertain labour-related issues- Court of Appeal
Circuit courts, according to the ruling, are inferior courts, exercise limited jurisdiction and have no supervisory jurisdiction to oversee the activities of the Labour Commission.
Richard Osei Boateng
Africa
Zimbabwe court sentences opposition leader for insulting Russian businesswoman
Magistrate Vongai Guwuriro ruled that Tendai Biti, a former Zimbabwean finance minister, must pay the fine or go to prison, ending a four-year legal battle between Biti and Tatiana Aleshina, who court papers said was a Russian investor.
VOA Africa
Europe
UK: Judge’s online stalker sentenced to eight years in prison
Javed Sheikh, 43, was convicted of aggravated stalking following a two-week trial at Bristol Crown Court.
Law Society Gazette
Courts
Court varies GHC 150,000 cost in Spio-Garbrah defamation case against Wontumi
Initially, the former Minister for Trade under the Mahama Administration was expected to pay the cost of GHC 150, 000 assessed by the trial High Court in its judgment.
DL News
Courts
Major Mahama murder case: Three convicts to appeal life sentence
According to him, his clients believe the judge misdirected the jury on the applicable law in determining the verdict of the case.
DL News
Supreme Court News
Magnanimity gone bad: Supreme Court saves man from losing Airport House to friend’s wife
"A transaction between two close friends got entangled in the vicissitudes of Ghana’s constitutional history with regrettable results."
Richard Osei Boateng
Courts
Court sets January 2024 for treason trial verdict
On that day, whether accused persons file written submissions or not, the Court would give its judgment.
GNA
Europe
UK: Litigant unwittingly put fake cases generated by AI before tribunal
Tax tribunal judge Anne Redston accepted that Felicity Harber had not know they were the product of what is known as ‘hallucination’, where generative AI delivers highly plausible but incorrect results.
Legal Futures
Business
MTN’s appeal against imposed tax liability fails at the High Court
In its judgment, the court presided over by Justice Afi Agbanu held that the Commissioner General did not err nor acted arbitrarily in imposing the tax liability on MTN for imported services between January 2014 to December 2017.
DL News
Courts
“I think she is an exquisite specimen of creation”: The ex-wife who shook the divorce proceedings
"I sat and watched Susan the ex-wife come in and go out of court. I think she is an exquisite specimen not only of womanhood but of creation itself. Twenty (20) years of her youthful and fruitful life is now wasted," the trial court observe...
DL News
Europe
Russian opposition leader loses appeal against extra 19-year jail sentence
The 19-year sentence was imposed on top of 11 and a half years he was already serving after being convicted of fraud and other charges.
Sky News
Africa
Nigeria: Presidential election petition court affirms Tinubu's electoral victory
After an almost 10-hour verdict, judges said the petitions by his two main challengers were without merit. Both Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the Labour Party had alleged widespread fraud.
BBC
General
The distinguished, true and real legal luminary that is his Lordship Professor Samuel Kofi Date-Bah
He prolifically authored articles covering constitutional provisions, landmark cases, and even comprehensive textbooks. By my calculation, between 1970 and 1978, he contributed more than 45 articles to UGLJ and RGL combined.
Ace Anan Ankomah