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Chief Justice $5 million bribery allegation: meritorious or counterintuitive?
In the face of these, is the $5 million allegation levelled against the Chief Justice of Ghana plausible?
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AG backs one-member-one-vote in political party elections
In the Statement of Case filed in Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng & 2 Others v New Patriotic Party & 4 Others, the Attorney-General’s central case is that every registered member in good standing of a political party is constitutionally enti...
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Judge Samuel Bright Acquah is a canker on the legal profession a the judicial service in Ghana: Martin Amidu writes
The question that immediately came to my mind was whether Judge Samuel Bright Acquah was a fit and proper person to have been enrolled on the Roll of Lawyers in Ghana in the first place.
Martin Amidu
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Full Text: President Akufo-Addo’s 26th address on Ghana’s enhanced response against COVID-19
Mask wearing in commercial vehicles and in market places continue to be mandatory
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Lawyers, gov't agents receive ECOWAS Court ECMS training
The participants, who are from Ghana, Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, will learn to file and serve documents electronically, track case progress in real-time.
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Kenyan High Court rules that lawyers are essential workers during COVID-19 lockdown
A Kenyan High Court in Nairobi, the country’s capital, has ruled that lawyers in the country be exempted from the curfew order imposed by the government to curtail the spread of COVID-19.
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Arguing points of law under the omnibus ground of appeal; The decision in Owusu Domena v Amoah
“When preparing an appeal, the rules required, as made manifest in rule 8(2) of CI 19 that the appellant should be specific in what he was seeking by way of relief from the appellate court..”
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Two granted bail over alleged GH¢127m cyber theft
The accused, Wisdom Mandy, 30, and Dennis Kudzo Letsa, 29, are facing charges including stealing, unauthorised access to a computer programme or electronic record and money laundering.
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Right to Dream triumphs over FIFA in CAS ruling on Nuamah transfer fees
The CAS ruling nullified FIFA’s earlier decision to award solidarity payments from Nuamah’s €25 million transfer to a Ghanaian club with limited influence on his footballing development.
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Are Lawyers Liars? Disabusing the Misconception
Many laypeople express frustration when they see lawyers defending individuals accused of committing crimes. They often wonder why a lawyer would go to great lengths to secure the freedom of someone who, in their eyes, has committed an egre...
Richard Osei Boateng
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US lawyer urged clients to infect opposing counsel with “nasty disease”
The extraordinary request was revealed in a ruling that condemned the behaviour of Colorado bankruptcy lawyer Devon Barclay in acting for two debtors and banned him from operating in the US Bankruptcy Court of Colorado for three years.
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Would you let a robot lawyer defend you?
Prof Susskind says in the 1980s he was genuinely horrified by the idea of a computer judge, but that he isn’t now.
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Election Petition
Is the Electoral Commission's Chairperson a mandatory witness for the Electoral Commission?
This question has arisen in the light of the Respondents’ decision to close their respective cases after the Petitioner has closed its case. The question has therefore been asked whether the first Respondent ought to have opened its case. I...
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Private citizen sues A-G, Chief Justice over legal vacation system
At the centre of the case is the question of whether the two-month suspension of sittings by the country’s two highest appellate courts affects the right of citizens to have their cases heard within a reasonable time.
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New York Attorney General indicted on federal bank fraud charges
Prosecutors allege that James misrepresented details on a mortgage loan for a Norfolk, Virginia, property, falsely claiming it was a secondary residence rather than a rental investment.
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Franklin Cudjoe Backs Jakpa Over Attorney General in Ambulance Trial
Franklin Cudjoe has voiced his support for Richard Jakpa in the ambulance trial, alleging that Attorney General Godfred Dame acted under political pressure.
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Three suggested ways to deal with delayed land cases-Justice Gertrude Torkornoo
Ghana’s courts are faced with a myriad of winding land cases whose resolutions usually take years and thus becoming a real challenge.
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When the non-professional litigant faced the Supreme Court, ‘chastising’ professionalism
"On the basis of the above-decided cases and the consistent practice of the Supreme Court, I will accept the invitation made to this court by learned counsel for the Defendants and hold that this court decline jurisdiction in the matter," t...
Richard Osei Boateng
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Check out Dampare’s 15 questions to the British High Commissioner on Barker-Vormawor’s arrest
In a statement dated May 17, 2022, the IGP notes that “ordinarily the Ghana Police would not have responded to a comment such as yours, obviously made from either a bias or uninformed position.”
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Law students demonstrate against refusal of admissions to law school
The group accused the General Legal Council of poorly handling legal education in the country, following the increasing fail rates of students who sit for the entrance exam every year
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