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Africa
Rwanda ex-prison director jailed for stealing
The court acquitted an IT specialist inmate who used his skills to hack the victim’s Visa card after telling the court that he was forced by the prison director to do so.
DENNISLAW NEWS6 December 2021
Courts
Court grants Funny Face bail with two sureties
On October 19, the police arrested Funny Face for threatening to kill his ex-wife and girlfriend, after which he said he would commit suicide.
DL News2 November 2021
Election Petition
Mahama files motion to amend ‘mistake’ in election petition
Former President John Dramani Mahama has filed a motion for the Supreme Court to give him the green light to correct an ‘error’ in his election petition challenging the validity of the declaration of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as...
DL News30 October 2021
General
Go to the Supreme Court if you are convinced-Foh-Amoaning dares Pro-LGBTQI+ Coalition
The Church of Pentecost indicated that it would campaign against Members of Parliament who oppose the anti-LGBT bill currently in Parliament.
DL News13 October 2021
General
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?
DL News15 September 2021
Europe
Catalonian extradition request moot in Scotland; target in Belgium
“No rational argument has been presented by Spain which justifies the criminalization of its citizens, who wish to peacefully argue for a different form of government or simply the right to self-determination, recognized in terms of the cha...
DL News27 August 2021
Courts
Court sentences trader for heaping refuse in her premises
Agbemavor would pay 25 penalty units (GH¢300) and also GH¢100 as compensation to the Hohoe Municipal Assembly or serve six months imprisonment if she defaulted.
DL News24 August 2021
Courts
2 in court over bribery of National Security Officer
According to the Prosecutor, on August 1, 2021, at about 1930 hours, the accused persons had their trucks driven to the Axle Weight Weighing Point along the Accra Tema Motorway.
DL News19 August 2021
Crime
Pressure from my pregnant partner forced me to steal – Suspect
The Court ordered the prosecution to release the retrieved items to the complainants.
DL News19 August 2021
Courts
Two in court over bribery of National Security Officer
The Prosecutor said the complainant caused the arrest of the accused and handed them over to the Police.
DL News11 August 2021
Courts
$15.3m judgment debt overturned
The judge upheld that the failure of Heritage Imperial Company to state the specific relief on its writ of summons was a fundamental defect.
DL News2 August 2021
Crime
Christ Embassy case: Application for the reopening of Fantasy Dome dismissed by Court
The accused persons who pleaded not guilty were therefore admitted to their previous bail in the sum of GHC 80, 000 each with two sureties.
DL News16 July 2021
General
You do not have absolute immunity - Speaker to MPs
The Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, RT.Hon.Alban S.K.Bagbin has advised Members of Parliament that the immunity they enjoy as contained in Articles 117 and 118 of the 1992 Constitution is not absolute
DL News9 June 2021
Courts
Nigerian jailed four months for attempting to register for Ghana card
The Madina District Court has sentenced a Nigerian, Derick Armstrong to four months imprisonment for falsely representing himself as a Ghanaian in an effort to register for a Ghana Card contrary to law.
DL News30 April 2021
Courts
State drops forgery charges against Bishop Obinim
The Kaneshie District Court has discharged the founder of International God’s Way Church (IGWC), Bishop Daniel Obinim and one other who were facing charges of forgery.
DL News22 April 2021
Africa
Press release on the abitrary use of judicial power by magisterate Ibrahim Mohammed of Zone 6 Magisterate Court Abuja
The Attention of the Nigerian Bar Association Abuja (Unity Bar) has been drawn to a bizarre event that ensured between one of our member MR EBURU EKWE BARTH and a Magisterate wherein it was alleged that Mr EBURU EKWE BARTH interjected the M...
DL News23 March 2021
General
I’m Fed Up; I Don’t Have Any Interest In Mahama’s Election Petition – Inusah Fuseini Confesses
Former Minister for Roads and Highways in the erstwhile Mahama administration, Inusah Abdulai B. Fuseini says the ongoing 2020 Presidential Election petition at the Supreme Court does not interest him.
DL News23 February 2021
Crime
Drunk driver in court over pedestrian’s death
An Accra Circuit Court has granted a GH¢ 60,000 bail with two sureties to a driver who allegedly negligently caused harm to four pedestrians resulting in the death of one.
DL News23 February 2021
Election Petition
It will be an affront to justice if Jean Mensa isn’t cross-examined – Tsatsu Tsikata
Tsatsu Tsikata, John Mahama’s lawyer in the election petition, is livid over the refusal by the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa, to testify in the election petition hearing.
DL News9 February 2021
Election Petition
Supreme Court strikes out five paragraphs from Mettle-Nunoo’s statement
At the election petition hearing on Friday, February 5, 2021, the Supreme Court ordered for the removal of five paragraphs from the witness statement of Rojo Mettle-Nunoo, one of the agents who represented John Mahama at the Electoral Commi...
DL News5 February 2021