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Crime
“The community advised itself appropriately that they are going have a self-defense mechanism against the coming of the investor into the community. In the course of the conversation, one of the men jumped into the back of the pick-up to ge...
DENNISLAW NEWS
General
In a press release to mark National Children’s Day, the Executive Director was convinced if the community structures are well-positioned to support parents in their quest to raise children, the whole community would reap the benefits.
DL News
General
Amidst the raging controversy regarding the opening of an office by members of the Lesbians Gays Bisexuals Transgender Queer and Intersexed community (LGBTQI), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has ordered for the swift closure of same...
DL News
Opinion
This article critiques Ghana’s outdated obscenity law under Section 281(1) of Act 29, arguing that its vague criminalization of "obscene objects" unconstitutionally endangers personal rights. It proposes legislative reform to exclude sexual...
Sedinam Awo Kwadam
General
When I look back at certain cases whose outcomes I consider undesirable, regardless of my own views on the questions being judged in them, I come to the conclusion that, we have in this country a fiercely independent Judiciary in which all...
DL News
General
Last Friday, Mr James Oppong-Boanuh, the then IGP, handed over the flag of command to Dr Dampare at a pulling-out ceremony in honour of the outgoing IGP, a lawyer, who served the service for 33 years.
DL News
Election Petition
A Judicial Service letter cautioning sections of the media to be circumspect in their reportage of the ongoing Presidential Election Petition has become a source of banter between a former Chief of staff and lawyer for the Service
DL News
General
Interior Minister Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak says the bill is intended to shift the system away from automatic custodial punishment in less serious cases and toward a model that is more practical, humane and cost-effective.
DL News
General
Another strategy the GPS has mapped out to combat crime is a Special Anti Operation Police Unit which is always on the alert to respond to a high robbery incident especially on the Eastern and Northern corridors.
DL News
Opinion
A lecture delivered at the KNUST Law Faculty on 23rd March, 2023
Mariam Agyeman Gyasi Jawhary
Opinion
The author evaluates the decision of the Supreme Court of Ghana in the case of Odamtten & others v. Wuta-Ofei & Ors, with respect to the application of the rule of customary law applicable in patrilineal communities
Kwame Adusei
Crime
Abalo Kwesi, the suspected thief, was made to carry the goat on his neck in the full glare of the residents during the march, with children and some youth singing to further humiliate him.
GNA
General
The Court said there were so many challenges that were preventing the enforcement of its judgments.
GNA
Courts
Together with the suspect, the community watchdogs went to the Police station and lodged a complaint.
DL News
Crime
A young man believed to be 24-years-old identified only as Isaac has allegedly murdered his ‘wife’ and deposited the mutilated body on a dumping site.
DL News
Opinion
The article examines the Justice for All Programme at Kumasi Central Prison in 2025 as a practical justice-sector intervention that brings courts into prison settings to review remand cases, grant or vary bail, and reduce prolonged pre-tria...
Emmanuel Brobbey
Others
The writer argues that public schools must balance institutional religious traditions with the constitutional imperative to protect every student’s freedom of belief and dignity in a pluralist democracy like Ghana.
DL News
Crime
What began as a routine intervention to calm rising tensions between local residents and Fulani herdsmen quickly deteriorated.
DL News
General
He spoke to host Samson Lardy Anyenini on The Law programme, discussing community sentencing as an alternative to custodial sentencing.
DL News
General
Over the years, stakeholders in the justice delivery system (the likes of CHRAJ and POS Foundation) have called for non-custodial sentencing, especially for offenders of petty crime.
DL News
