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Crime
80-year-old ex-soldier arrested for attempted murder
The suspect allegedly fired a gun at Kusi for allegedly hitting him (Boafo) during a misunderstanding.
GRAPHIC ONLINE10 December 2021
Africa
Gambia’s truth commission recommends prosecutions
Some 250 Gambians and foreign nationals died because of human rights violations under Mr Jammeh’s rule.
DL News26 November 2021
General
Legal Professions Bill: Deans of Faculties to make recommendations
Prof. Atuguba assured students, parents, and guardians, that the newly formed Conference of Law Deans will work to assuage most of the challenges faced in legal education in Ghana.
DL News25 November 2021
General
Constitutional review: reckless to place an amendment option under current government – Srem-Sai
What aspects of it should we change to improve it.
DL News11 November 2021
Africa
DR Congo lifts ban on song criticising the president
Any citizen is free to express his opinion, provided it is in line with the law,
DL News10 November 2021
General
Families of victims of Ejura violence petition parliament
On October 27, 2021, the family of Kaaka also petitioned the Police Intelligence & Police Professional Standards (PIPS) requesting an inquiry into allegations of police misconduct during the Ejura disturbances.
DL News1 November 2021
General
Help the Police to consolidate peace and security – Police Council told
The President made the call when he swore into office the newly constituted Governing Council at the Jubilee House in Accra on Tuesday.
GNA27 October 2021
Crime
What the law says: On Students vandalism
The Executive Director of the Education Thinktank, Africa EduWatch, Kofi Asare, subsequently called on the Ghana Education Service, Ghana Police Service and the Attorney General to begin criminal prosecution of such students
DENNISLAW NEWS22 October 2021
General
President charges Boundary Commission to resolve border challenges
President Akufo-Addo also noted that the commission was working to find solutions to boundary challenges with Togo and Burkina Faso at Sapaliga in the Bawku West district and Paga in the Kassina Nankana district, both of the Upper East Regi...
DL News18 October 2021
Africa
Agnes Tirop: Husband arrested in Kenya after athlete’s death
“We just lost a great talent.
DL News15 October 2021
General
Why proponents of Ghana’s ‘anti-gay bill’ get it so wrong
The anti-gay bill seeks, in a nutshell, to criminalise LGBTQ+ sexual relationships and associations
DL News14 October 2021
General
160 inmates on Ghana’s death row – Amnesty International
The Death Penalty violates the right to life as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
DL News12 October 2021
US
Expedite action on the bill to abolish death penalty-UNA-GH
At the end of 2020, at least 28,567 people were known to be under sentence of death. Of this figure, 483 executions were recorded in 18 countries in 2020, a decrease of 26% from 657 recorded in 2019.
DL News11 October 2021
US
Global tax deal seeks to end havens, criticized for ‘no teeth’
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Paris would use its European Union presidency during the first half of 2022 to translate the agreement into law across the 27-nation bloc.
DL News9 October 2021
General
Hon Xavier Sosu petitions Speaker to probe mass failure in 2021 law school entrance exams
A statement released by the National Association of Law Students indicated that the Ghana School of Law had projected to only admit 550 students in page 186 of the 2021 budget statement.
DL News6 October 2021
General
‘Their personal agendas won’t override the desire of the majority’ – Sam George on groups opposing Anti LGBTQ+ bill
They say if the bill is passed into law you cannot have this kind of conversation, that is incorrect and uninformed. What the bill criminalises is the advocacy for and promotion of LGBTQ.”
DL News5 October 2021
General
I can’t fight corruption with poorly paid staff and staff on secondments — Special Prosecutor
The Special Prosecutor has plans to have a staff capacity of 250 people by the end of January 22.
DL News1 September 2021
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.
DL News1 September 2021
General
Dame to special prosecutor: I won’t interfere with your work
You can’t fight corruption with poorly paid staff and staff on secondments, it will be a lost battle
DL News1 September 2021
Europe
21st Century Restatement of the principle in Kponuglo v. Kodadja
The ratio of that decision is that where a person in a land suit claims damages for trespass and an injunction against further trespass, he puts his title in issue.
DL News28 August 2021