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Establish legal clinics in Ghanaian law schools – Prof. Frimpong Oppong
Additionally, he asked that regulatory barriers against the establishment and operation of such clinics should be removed.
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Streamlining legal billing: Best practices for law firms
To keep your legal business running smoothly, ensuring an efficient billing process is important. Here are tips that can make your law firm billing process more efficient and less hectic
Lawyer Monthly
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Law Firm Zoe, Akyea & Co enters partnership agreement with UCC Law faculty
Honourable Samuel Atta Akyea, the Head of Chambers in his address noted that through the partnership, hard work and excellence will be instilled in the students so as to come out of school having internalized these values
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Africa
Zimbabwe: New marriage law give 'girlfriends' inheritance rights
Unlike in the past, the new law recognizes civil partnerships, which are not marriages but are recognized only for property sharing.
AllAfrica
Tech
New 2022 Data Reveals Marketing Priorities for Law Firms
The study surveyed over 500 US-based individuals employed by law firms that commission fewer than 1,000 employees nationwide to determine what marketing challenges law firms face, where firms are allocating their marketing budgets, and whic...
Law Technology Today
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Teach inter-disciplinary perspectives of Law for Social change-Prof Kufuor to Law Faculties
According to him, most developing countries will attain Development and solve pressing issues when they begin to see Law as a fulcrum that reaches out to other academic areas.
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Link Law to Technology for Economic development-Prof. Kufuor
“There is a close link that tends to be ignored. A link with the law on the one hand, and technology on the other hand. It is so separate that most people who are good at law, are very bad at technology and people who are good at technology...
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Do something about the conditions of service of law teachers – Ansa Asare
“Members of the legal class are taught by law lecturers. They retire on their full salary. They are treated more or less as Article 71 officers. Judges were taught by law lecturers, they retire on their salaries. Law teachers are excluded....
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GSL exams should be decentralised – legal practitioner
“So we can have a Ghana School of Law (GSL) bar exam across board and definitely, the best law faculties will stand out, in respect of their coaching, preparation and investment in their law students,”
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Africa
Federation of African Law Students elects Ghana’s Alfred Eli Dei as President
The election of Alfred is certainly a piece of good news and achievement for Ghana and its Law fraternity.
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Tech
Women Dominate Big Law Firms and Legal Department in Ghana
Significant efforts are still needed to ensure that there is balance in the male-female ratios of lawyers across the country.
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Opinion
The Pretrial Detainee in Ghanaian Civil Litigation: A Constitutional and International Human Rights Appraisal of Order 73 Of C.I. 47 and Order 12 of C.I. 59; A Case for the Expungement of Absconding Warrants from Ghanaian Civil Procedure
This article argues that Ghana's civil procedure rules—specifically Order 73 of C.I. 47 and Order 12 of C.I. 59—violate constitutional and international human rights by allowing pretrial detention of civil defendants based solely on unprove...
Sedinam Awo Kwadam
Courts
Couple’s names on indenture presume joint ownership – Court orders in void marriage case
The Court held that although the parties' marriage was legally invalid, the inclusion of both their names in the property's indenture constituted prima facie evidence of joint ownership, which could only be displaced by sufficient evidence...
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CJ Baffoe-Bonnie to retire later this year
Speaking at a reception at the Supreme Court Forecourt after a commemorative church service, Justice Baffoe-Bonnie stressed that the Judiciary is an institution that extends beyond the tenure of any individual office holder.
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Recognise TMA's development control authority-Gov't directs TDC
The letter, signed by the Secretary to the President, Dr Callistus Mahama, followed a review of the constitutional and statutory mandates of the two institutions.
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Former Chief Justice calls for tighter controls on Supreme Court appeals
She said the apex court is being burdened by cases that could have ended earlier, especially appeals filed over procedural issues before the main case is even concluded.
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Parliament passes Tribunals Bill
The passage forms part of government’s broader justice reform agenda aimed at improving access to justice and reducing pressure on the regular courts.
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Courts
Wontumi names Atta Akyea as new lead counsel in Akonta Mining case
The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, whose official name is Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, announced the change after his former lawyer, Andy Appiah-Kubi, indicated his intention to withdraw from the matter.
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GBA rejects claims of NPP bias, condemns Afenyo-Markin’s attack on judge
The Association’s Public Relations Officer, Saviour Kudze, said attempts to brand the GBA as partisan whenever it comments on national issues undermine the legal profession and distract from more pressing national concerns.
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12 civil society groups move to join Supreme Court case over OSP powers
The groups want to participate as amicus curiae, or friends of the court, saying the legal challenge raises far-reaching questions about Ghana’s anti-corruption regime.
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