Africa
Gay Namibian couple’s son granted citizenship
The couple, Namibian Philip Lühl and his Mexican husband Guillermo Delgado, already have twin daughters, who were also born in South Africa via surrogacy.
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Results for "2022 IBA Outstanding Young Lawyer Award"
3340 results.
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Digitise Tax Clearance Certificate acquisition process at GRA – Legal practitioner urges
“If you take the Tax Clearance Certificate under contention, it is just a cedi you pay to get it but then if you look at the process it makes it difficult for people who want it to wait and so if the turnaround time is not respected then be...
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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.
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Find innovative ways of opening up legal education – Baba Jamal to GLC
Ordinarily, admission to the Ghana School of Law for professional legal education requires that successful candidates obtain a minimum rank of 50 percent, but the new directive meant some students were disappointed despite exceeding the 50...
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Lawyer kicks against planned demolishing of Buduburam camp; calls for more dialogue
It also houses refugees from Sierra Leone who fled their country’s civil war between 1991 and 2002.
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Treat citizens right before they show they have real power: Samson’s Take
NEDCO, VRA and Police, if you suspect someone has connected electricity illegally, follow the sections 93 and 94 procedures in the Criminal Procedure Act and go gather the evidence to collect your money and prosecute them.
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Having the title and name of every Chief Justice on every writ of summons is unconstitutional-Lawyer files action in the Supreme Court
According to the plaintiff, 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...
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Courts
Rev. Owusu Bempah granted GH¢200,000 bail
Rev.Bempah was arrested after a video of him and his church members threatening to kill a fetish priest turned Evangelist; Patricia Oduro Koranteng popularly called Nana Agradaa, went viral.
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Review tax exemptions given to investors – Dr. Ali-Nakyea counsels Governments
This is why the Tax Exemptions Bill 2019 has been a worry for the delay in its passage into law,”
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Bar Conference’21: Make the fulfillment of tax obligation criteria for lawyers’ good standing-AG to GBA
“Sad to say, many lawyers are caught in the phenomenon of tax evasion as they unjustifiably avoid being caught in the tax net either by understanding their profits or concealing their true income,
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GBA moves forward to hold 28th Annual Conference
The conference promises to be informative and pragmatically innovative
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Europe
Jerome Boateng in court for allegedly assaulting ex-girlfriend
February Mr Boateng’s ex-girlfriend, 25-year-old model Kasia Lenhardt, was found dead after taking her own life at a flat in Berlin.
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Courts
Richard Dela Sky writes: Can a media house be held liable for defamatory comments by others under their social media posts?
where a media house putting up a post disables the comment section on its page, some viewers would want to be clever by sharing the posts on their pages with defamatory captions
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Courts
Court grants 26 herdsmen ¢100k bail each for unlawful assembly
The suspects will reappear in court on September 20.
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16 Cape Coast Technical University students place an injunction on end of semester examination
The students were dismissed without any basis, and again the said punishments were based on non-existing laws.
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Africa
Agnes Sithole: The woman who fought South Africa’s sexist marriage laws
We knew that the law had changed and thought it had changed for everyone,” recalls Agnes. “[Later], when I realised that the law had cheated me, that’s when I realised that I would have to fight this.”
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Let’s use psychological assessment tools to measure motives of serial killers
Dr Kwakye-Nuako attributed some behaviours of such violent offenders to social factors such as movies on television revealing dubious means of acquiring wealth, although the end usually had lessons to teach.
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Ghana School of launches 6th volume of the student Journal
The 6th Volume of the GSL student Journal was launched in partnership with the Student Representative Council (SRC) of the Ghana School of Law and coincided with the SRC’s handing over.
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Crime
Govt entreated to support poor, vulnerable facing prosecutions
Vagrancy laws criminalise the status of the poor and homeless, and not necessarily what they have done. These include loitering and hawking,”
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Europe
Benjamin Mendy remanded in custody on rape charges
Stables said Mendy had already been in custody for “two days and two nights” while awaiting Friday’s hearing, and it had been a “real shock” for him.
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