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Twitter to pay $809.5 Million as settlement for a lawsuit
The Court is expected to approve the final settlement agreement between Twitter and its aggrieved shareholders.
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Seat Of Arbitration Is Decided As Per Arbitration Agreement, Rules To Be Applied Only After Commencement Of Arbitration: Delhi High Court
Relying on a plethora of judgments distinguishing between “seat” and “venue”, the Court was finally of the opinion that the seat of arbitration in the case shall be Lucknow. Accordingly the plea was dismissed.
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IGP Akuffo Dampare’s fidelity to law: Samson’s Take
don’t know what your motivation is, but I know those who know better and mean well for this country are gladdened by the action that sends the right signals to all that those who break the law will not be spared regardless of who they are o...
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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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New LI on NRSA Act in the offing
“Once there is an accident, it is a huge cost to the nation and to the organisation as well. This year our target is zero accident, we do not even want to record any encounters with the police as regards disrespectful, indecent and indiscip...
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Online romance fraud scheme: Ghanaian sentenced by U.S District Court to 40 months in prison
Dorpe purported to be a jeweler who was traveling abroad to buy gold and other jewelry before returning home to Virginia Beach.
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Manasseh Azure Awuni : A Noble Profession,Ignoble Association
And when democracy dies, the rule of law dies. And what’s the essence of lawyers when there is no rule of 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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Africa
Court approves appointment of T.B. Joshua’s wife as SCOAN trustee
With no objections from the respondents, the court wasted no time in granting the approval and the expectation is that the move will provide further clarity on the leadership succession in the church.
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Democracy requires transparency in conflict resolution – Chief Justice affirms
Ghana’s case tracking system was introduced in 2018 to support key actors in the justice delivery system in their efforts to collect, collate and harmonize data in a way that ensures effective justice delivery.
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Reforming local governance system
Clearly, the participation of political parties in the general election accounts significantly for such high voter turnout for these elections.
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Defilement age should be extended to 17 years – Lawyer
“We cannot punish a person for an act which did not constitute an offence under the laws of Ghana, that is what the constitution says.
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Drama As Boy Who Wrote JAMB, Demands For N1bn Is Handed Over To Police
John had claimed he scored 380 in the examination conducted in June and was surprised to receive 265 from the board after the results were released.
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Samson’s Take: 5 years jail for sharing fake news
If you are lucky to be prosecuted under section 208 of our criminal code, you may get up to three years in prison for your reckless act.
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Courts
Pantang hospital urges LaNMA to expedite court action against encroachers
“We need to get a court order for those properties to be demolished,
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GNPC-Aker deal: I’ve not taken any bribe, says Haruna Iddrisu
Royalties, tax revenues and profits to GNPC Explorco will amount to about US$6.5 billion in nominal value over 15 years and substantial foreign exchange inflows will accrue to Ghana
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Public institutions cannot allocate lands without Executive approval – President
The task ahead is daunting. But with focus, good policies, and determination, you can deliver on your mandate,
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Immigration Service chases foreigners with Ghana passport
The GIS will never let the region and the country down, especially when drugs, cyberfraud, Q-Net [the controversial online ‘network marketing organisation’] are trying to take root in the region.
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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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Google appeals France’s ‘disproportionate’ $591 million fine in copyright row
The French antitrust body imposed the sanction on Google for failing to comply with its orders on how to conduct the talks with publishers.
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