Supreme Court News
Deposing to affidavits of clients will ‘hit’ you one day – SC advises lawyers
They noted that if not checked, that practice tends towards leading such lawyers into trouble
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Private ‘thievery’ not under EOCO’s remit- SC quashes High Court order
The apex court noted in its ruling in a Judicial review action that such matters which bother on allegations of theft by private persons, do not fall under EOCO’s remit
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Courts
Court directs Charles Bissue to file written submission
Mr. Bissue and his lawyers have sued the OSP over issues concerning his (Bissue) fundamental human rights.
GNA
Supreme Court News
Defamation against Ken Agyepong: Anas goes to SC for Certiorari
Represented by Odei Krow Esq, Anas is among others, praying the Supreme Court to bring the said High Court judgment delivered on March 15, 2023, for the same to be quashed
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Supreme Court News
CJ adjourns EC Chair's suit against Vormawor and Co to reconstitute panel
According to the panel presided over by the Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, there will be the need to reconstitute the panel since she has automatically become the second defendant by virtue of her position
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Tech
US law firms lead rush to join Twitter rival Threads
It comes as an IP battle between Twitter owner Elon Musk and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg shapes up.
LAW.COM
Supreme Court News
Case of child streetism: Supreme Court to deliver judgment Nov 22
Child Right International is seeking to enforce and give meaning to children's right to education, and to deal with the threat posed by child streetism.
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Europe
UK: Solicitor struck off for hiding friendship with convicted money lender
A tribunal found that Malcolm Glynn had been motivated a desire to conceal the relationship he had with a convicted money launderer and had breached his position of trust
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Ghanaian children wrongly taken in raids backed by US charity IJM
The multimillion-dollar charity, International Justice Mission, aims to rescue trafficked children and reunite them with their families. But serious concerns have been raised about their West African operations.
BBC
Courts
Chief remanded over alleged fraudulent sale of land
Borquaye was remanded after he was arrested on a bench warrant.
GNA
Africa
Kenyans arrested after alleged period-check stripping order
In a statement on its website Brown's Food Company said it was "saddened" and that the matter "does not reflect the procedures of the company as a whole".
BBC
Tech
Authors file copyright infringement against OpenAI, claiming books used as training material for ChatGPT
It alleged that large portions of the copyrighted material was allegedly used to train ChatGPT to enable it to “emit convincingly naturalistic text outputs in response to user prompts,” according to the complaint.
LAW.COM
Courts
Ambulance case: Court summons former Minister of Health, two others to testify
The orders of the court come as Lead Counsel for Mr. Forson, Dr. Basit Bamba, moved a motion under section 58 of the Courts Act, 1993 (Act 459)
DL News
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.
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Courts
Defamation: Finance Minister sues Captain Smart, demands GHC10 Million as damages
According to the Writ of Summons, the broadcaster is alleged to have made some statements on the May 22, 2022 edition of the ‘Onua Maakye show’ to the effect that Ken Ofori Atta has taken his 10 percent share of the IMF money
DL News
Africa
Nobody will move us over anti-gay law - Museveni
Mr. Museveni insisted the signing of the law was a done deal, defying calls to have it repealed
BBC
Africa
Nigeria MPs want $25bn spent to fix refineries probed
This news comes as the price of fuel has more than doubled in Nigeria after the new president, Bola Tinubu, announced the scrapping of a fuel subsidy
BBC
Supreme Court News
What constitutes "active party politics" by chiefs? : Check out Supreme Court reasoning
The plaintiff further sought a declaration that the endorsement of politicians by some chiefs during and in the round up to the 2020 General election amounted to their engagement in ‘active party politics’ and thus a breach of Article 276(1...
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Europe
IT worker sues her boss believing 'xx' in email were kisses
Karina Gasparova also claimed that when Alexander Goulandris renamed a work file with his initials 'ajg' it was an abbreviation of "A Jumbo Genital".
BBC
Courts
Why Ato Essien was given lifeline to honour restitution deal
According to the judge, Ato Essien has informed the court about ongoing plans to sell assets in some companies owned by him in order to pay the outstanding amount on his restitution deal.
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