Africa
Ivory Coast’s ex-President Gbagbo returns home after ICC acquittal
Mr Gbagbo has been living in the Belgian capital Brussels since his release from detention three years ago.
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US
US Senate approves bill to contest China tech, military advancements
US Senate lawmakers have approved a massive spending plan to boost technology research and production.
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General
Who is Kissi Agyebeng, the man pencilled in for Special Prosecutor?
Mr Kissi Agyebeng, is a legal practitioner, and Chairman of the Electronic Communications Tribunal, who is expected to be nominated as the next Special Prosecutor (SP), according to Daily Graphic sources.
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General
Full Text: Report on key legal matters by AG at Government’s Accountability Series
Dr. Ayine tackled some of the nation’s most closely watched legal developments including the controversial discontinuation of the criminal case against former Finance Minister Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, new revelations in the National Service Sch...
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Europe
British solicitor who defrauded clients of £1.7M jailed
Bilmes pleaded guilty to seven charges of fraud. Between November 2014 and October 2017 he dishonestly appropriated £1,767,322 from the client account of his firm.
Law Society Gazette
Courts
The BoG is under no obligation to seek parliamentary approval for its directives-Supreme Court affirms
The Bank of Ghana issued a directive described as the Banking Business Corporate Governance Directive in March 2018 under the Banks and Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions Act.
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Africa
Barring foreign nationals from being admitted to legal profession not unconstitutional - ConCourt
In September last year, the Free State High Court in Bloemfontein declared that section unconstitutional and invalid but found the discrimination in Section 24(2)(b) of the LPA was fair.
News24
Tech
Three software development questions law firms should ask themselves
Successful use of tech can only occur when the software is specialised for law and for a firm’s own specific needs
Lawyer Monthly
Tech
Failure to patch and introduce MFA led to £98k ICO fine for Tuckers Solicitors
Tuckers patched five months after an NCSC alert flagged exploitation of a critical vulnerability, understood to be in Citrix. While it was not conclusive that the vulnerability was how the attacker was able to access Tuckers’ network, its d...
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Africa
Pandora Papers: Uhuru Kenyatta family’s secret assets exposed by leak
Another BVI company which Mr Muhoho owned had a $30m valuation in stocks and bonds as of November 2016.
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Courts
Apprentice, 22, allegedly steals over GH¢308k from master
Agyei appeared before an Accra Circuit Court, presided over by Isaac Oheneba Kuffour, on Monday, on 17 counts of stealing.
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Supreme Court News
Supreme Court at 150 today: A milestone worth remembering-From CJ Chalmers to CJ Baffoe-Bonnie
The Supreme Court is not simply the apex of the judicial hierarchy. It is one of the oldest surviving institutions of public authority in Ghana. It predates independence by more than eighty years and has endured through colonial rule, late-...
His Lordship Justice Nana Barima Yaw Kodie Oppong and Kweku Darko Ankrah
General
Admission of 10 failed students was in the interest of the Ghana School of Law
"As I have done consistently, save as I admitted the 10 students in addition to the 1045 students for the 2020/2021 academic year, same was not done for any personal or pecuniary interest but in the best interest of the School.”
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US
Coachella files copyright infringement lawsuit against Afrochella
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday at a California district court and obtained by Rolling Stone, comes three years after AEG (which owns Goldenvoice) issued a warning to the Afrochella festival about infringing on the festival’s trademark.
Rolling Stone
General
Policy dialogue held on Women's Economic rights
The event was organized by Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF) in collaboration with OXFAM, under the Women’s Economic Advancement for Collective Transformation (WEACT) and Together Against Poverty (TAP) projects.
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Courts
Lawyer Kpebu not sole owner of “Annotated Evidence Law of Ghana” but jointly owned-Court says
In the court’s judgment by Justice Kweku T. Ackaah-Boafo J.A., it was established per the Author Collaboration Agreement(ACA) that the words used in the agreement are clear and unequivocal that the parties intended to have work done in both...
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General
Russia-Ukraine war: A law lecturer’s perspective
A Law lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the Wisconsin International University and the Lancaster Law Faculty, George Acquah (Esq) had this to say when contacted by Dennislaw News;
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Business
How the 10 institutions accredited to offer legal education in Ghana have been assessed
The General Legal Council (GLC) in collaboration with the National Accreditation Board (NAB) has published a report on tertiary institutions that are accredited to offer legal education at the faculty level for LLB degrees.
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US
American actor Jamie Foxx, others accused of sexual assault as window for historical lawsuits closes
The lawsuits were filed under New York's Adult Survivors Act, which lets adult victims sue over attacks that occurred decades ago - a law which expires after Thanksgiving on Thursday and has seen more than 2,500 actions so far
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General
Entertainment & the Law: Understanding Shatta Wale’s present headaches
On Tuesday, September 28, 2021, a Bishop sits in the studio of an Accra-based radio station, Accra FM and declares in Twi that “on October 18, 2021, a big calamity will befall Ghana.
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