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Access to information to be extended to private institutions— RTI Commission
Under the Right to Information Act, 2019 (Act 989), people’s right to access information is limited to public institutions.
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Results for "Right to Counsel"
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Courts
Court fixes August 17 to hear stay application in Abdul Hanan trial
The date was set after defence counsel failed to appear when the matter was called on August 12.
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Asia
Married daughters cannot be considered to be dependent family members of the deceased
Thus the court passed an order amending the compensation awarded.
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Courts
High Court's full legal reasoning for rejecting Wontumi's adjournment, referral motions
In reaching her decision, Justice Kocuvie-Tay relied on the Supreme Court’s decision in Republic v High Court (Fast Track Division), Accra; Ex parte Sian Goldfields Limited, where the court stated that adjournments are subject to the conven...
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Right to Dream triumphs over FIFA in CAS ruling on Nuamah transfer fees
The CAS ruling nullified FIFA’s earlier decision to award solidarity payments from Nuamah’s €25 million transfer to a Ghanaian club with limited influence on his footballing development.
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General
AG to train RTI Commission staff on prosecution of offenders
The Commission has secured a fiat from the Office of the Attorney General relative to the prosecution of offenders under Act 989.
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General
Anti-LGBTQI Bill: We’ve not been sponsored by any donor agency, says Audrey Gadzekpo
“The bill violates virtually all the key fundamental freedoms guaranteed under the constitution, namely the right to freedom of speech and expression, the right to assemble, freedom of association and the right to organise, the right to fre...
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Supreme Court News
It’s unconstitutional for teachers to go on strike – Child Rights Int’l drags GNAT, NAGRAT, CCT to Supreme Court
In the end, the Supreme Court established that workers, including teachers, have a right to unionize as well as to strike and cannot grant the plaintiff’s relief.
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Courts
Ho High Court sets July 2 for Amewu to testify in SALL election denial case
This was after Counsel for Mr Amewu told the court that he had not been able to produce his client before the court because he was on a national assignment.
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Supreme Court News
Supreme Court dismisses Assin North MP review application
The Supreme Court panel presided over by Justice Jones Dotse noted that the MP’s application lacked merit and accordingly dismissed the same.
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Opinion
“Agent For Plaintiff”: A Fatal Misnomer; Why Ghanaian Lawyers Are Unwittingly Forfeiting Their Protections Through the Misdescription of Counsel in Ghanaian Civil Procedure: An Analysis of the Doctrine of Solicitor-Solicitor Agency vs. Lawyer-Client Reality
The article argues that endorsing a writ with “Agent for Plaintiff” wrongly treats the lawyer-client relationship as an agency relationship, whereas Order 2 rule 5(1)(b) of C.I. 47 concerns one lawyer acting as agent for another lawyer. It...
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Courts
‘Battle’ for Medikal’s gun: Court to rule on motion Feb 21
During the last sitting, counsel for the rapper, Bobby Banson prayed the court to release his client’s Ruger nine-millimetre pistol for his protection because the same was acquired lawfully.
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Supreme Court News
Court rules cannot revive a lost right of appeal — Supreme Court
The five-member panel, presided over by Justice Sir Dennis Adjei, ruled that where the statutory period for invoking an appellate court’s jurisdiction expires, the court cannot rely on general procedural powers to restore that right.
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Others
The principle of quicquid plantatur solo, solo cedit
This article argues that the maxim quicquid plantatur solo, solo cedit has increasingly been relied upon by litigants as a shield to establish claims of possession through physical acts upon land, thereby exposing potential purchasers who f...
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247 RTI requests were received in 2021- Oppong-Nkrumah
Overall 247 requests were received and processed in 65 public institutions.
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Business
Execution of shares in Ghana: A Practitioner’s Guide
. The constitution must also specifically prohibit the separation of the legal and equitable interests in shares and by so doing out rightly prohibit the acquisition of any interest once there is a total disregard and non-compliance with th...
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Full Speech: Justice William Atuguba's lecture on the Judiciary's role in protecting Ghana's Democracy
"Sharing my lived experiences with the Justice delivery system vi-a-vis public confidence in the judiciary and how recent Judicial pronouncements and rulings portend for consideration of Ghana’s democracy."
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Courts
Treason trial: Idea of the coup has been your brain-child – Defense counsel to witness
“What You told the court is not born by the video watched, nowhere did Mac Palm object to anything in like manner, the Court heard
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Election Petition
Do not bring God into the court - EC counsel tells Tsikata
Counsel for the Electoral Commission, Justin Amenuvor has asked counsel for the petitioner in the 2020 Election Petition, Tsatsu Tsikata not to quote the Bible in support of his application of review to be granted.
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Courts
Adu-Boahene, wife given six days to produce lawyer in NSB trial
The court warned that if counsel fail to appear at the next sitting, the accused persons may have to conduct the cross-examination themselves or the prosecution’s witness may be discharged for the case to proceed.
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