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Courts
High Court sittings extended to 6:30 pm as special criminal sessions start today
The change takes effect from Monday, 9 February 2026, when special court sessions begin to clear backlogs in selected criminal cases.
DL News9 February 2026
Courts
NPRA suffers early setback as High Court strikes out motion to halt wrongful dismissal suit
Justice Kwame Amoakoh, sitting in a relieving capacity for the recently promoted Labour Court judge, held that the NPRA’s application was procedurally incompetent and did not meet the threshold
DL News2 December 2025
General
The ‘bitter reality’ of sharing marital property in a company
When it comes to a company, the doctrine of Separate Legal Personality (SLP) as espoused in the classical case of Salomon v Salomon & Co Ltd [1896] UKHL 1, [1897] AC 22, and the Ghanaian case of Morkor v Kuma [1998-99] SCGLR 620 and others,...
Richard Osei Boateng20 September 2024
Courts
Yaw Oppong, Poku Adusei, Osei Tutu J among 16 newly sworn in Court of Appeal Justices
In April this year, the president submitted twenty(20) names to the Judicial Council, which were subjected to vetting per Articles 144(3) and 154 of the 1992 Constitution after which sixteen came out successful.
DL News23 July 2024
Africa
ECOWAS Court launches training manual for lawyers, CSOs
Vice-President of the Court, Justice Gbéri-Bè Ouattara launched the manual last Friday during a capacity-building seminar.
DL News12 December 2023
Supreme Court News
Interprete Order 43 Rule 9 of C.I.47 purposively- CJ tells counsel
The Chief Justice said this on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, when she presided on a Judicial Review case titled; THE REPUBLIC v HIGH COURT, TEMA EX PARTE: MANKRALO TETTEH OTIBU IV & ORS
DL News22 June 2023
Tech
'No bad faith': Fake citations generated through ChatGPT don't warrant sanctions, attorneys argue
Attorney Steven Schwartz and his firm "have already become the poster children for the perils of dabbling with new technology; their lesson has been learned," his lawyers told the judge.
LAW.COM8 June 2023
Supreme Court News
As CJ Anin Yeboah retires; Some Cases in which he gave lead judgment
He will be remembered for his passionate role in ensuring and elevating the Independence of the Judiciary and his outstanding contribution to enhancing access to Justice delivery
DL News24 May 2023
Tech
How GPT-4 mastered the entire bar exam, and why that matters
Researchers tested GPT-4 on all three portions of the bar exam, and its final score would put it in the 90th percentile of human test-takers—and above the average for actual test-takers of the most recently administered bar exam.
LAW.COM20 March 2023
Tech
A US Bankruptcy Court served a subpoena via Twitter. Will this catch on?
US Courts have become creative with their use of social media, in some perhaps unexpected ways - like the service of a subpoena via Twitter
LAW.COM7 February 2023
General
H-Kwasi Prempeh writes: 'The lawyerization and judicialization of the business of Parliament is bad for our democracy'
Coming to this business of the motion of censure, we have just witnessed the lawyerization or judicialization of what is fundamentally a political, not a legal, sanction.
H.Kwasi Prempeh22 November 2022
General
Aspects of anti-LGBTQ+ Bill may violate some fundamental human rights – Attorney-General
The anti-LGBTQ+ Bill, known rightly as the “Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021”, seeks to criminalize LGBTQI+ activities and advocacy.
DL News17 November 2022
General
Deal with seeming factionalism within the legal profession- Supreme Court Justice tells GBA
“All is definitely not well with the Association. This is because we have started to see signs of factionalism in the profession."
DL News14 September 2022
General
Ongoing case investigations at the OSP totals 75 - Half Year Report
The Office is also investigating seventy (70) other cases at various levels of consideration.
DL News15 August 2022
Supreme Court News
Suit challenging use of CJ's name on writ of summons dismissed
The lawyer argued that both the letter and spirit of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana are breached by the continuos practice which undermines the sovereignty of Ghana.
DL News27 July 2022
Others
The new kid on the block; We don’t know what we have created
It’s been close to five years (5) since it was created but was never really set up till August 2021. Even its set up has been slow due to lack of resources and staff.
TheSammy Darko(Esq)14 July 2022
Supreme Court News
Supreme Court defers judgment on suit against use of CJ's name on writs of summons
The lawyer argues that both the letter and spirit of the 1992 constitution of Ghana are breached by the continuing practice which undermines the sovereignty of Ghana because it seems to suggest that sovereignty rather emanates from the hold...
DL News29 June 2022
General
Parliament passes ‘Plea Bargaining Bill’
Even though there existed a few instances where plea bargaining existed for very few offenses like Subsections (2) and (3) of Section 239 of Act 30 and others, the majority of offenses under Ghana’s criminal jurisdiction are generally exclu...
DL News27 June 2022
Courts
Court to rule on Lighthouse Chapel application Nov 25
Being properly noticed, according to counsel, would afford his clients the opportunity to know exactly what to respond to in respect to the Church’s application.
DL News11 November 2021
Courts
Litigation and Technology: Making the case for virtual courts in Ghana
Certainly, a virtual court in Ghana will benefit the courts/judicial system, clients, lawyers and the environment
DL News5 November 2021