Results for “Speaker of Parliament”

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Check out CJs new directive on serving court processes on Officials of Parliament
According to the Chief Justice’s circular, court documents intended for the Speaker of Parliament should be delivered to the Legal Department of the Parliamentary Service on Mondays during business hours.
DL News11 November 2024
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Chaos in Parliament: Minority to push for probing of First Deputy Speaker
This comes after calls by the First Deputy Speaker for disciplinary sanctions against Minority MPs captured in a viral video causing chaos in the House.
DENNISLAW NEWS7 December 2021
Supreme Court News
NPP MP goes to Supreme Court over speaker’s ruling on Adwoa safo
On Wednesday, October 26, a day after Parliament reconvened, the Speaker made a ruling in which he admitted the Motion and thus dismissed the Majority leader’s preliminary objection.
DL News28 October 2022
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Withdraw directive on road toll cessation-Speaker to Roads Minister
The law we have now has imposed a figure they have been collecting.”
DL News18 November 2021
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Speaker of Parliament admits to having no right to amend GIPC Act– GUTA
Leadership of GUTA expressed gratitude to the Speaker of Parliament for granting them an audience to re-emphasize their position that the GIPC Act, is all that holds the brakes to insecurity and unfair trade practices in Ghana’s retail spac...
DL News2 August 2021
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Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu challenges Speaker’s authority to suspend MPs
During an interview on Newsfile, he acknowledged that the Speaker acted by Order 342 of the revised Standing Orders by referring allegations of misconduct at the Appointments Committee to the Committee on Privileges and Immunities.
DL News3 February 2025
Supreme Court News
Anti-LGBTQI Bill: Supreme Court dismisses injunction application against Speaker Bagbin
The plaintiff had filed a suit challenging the Speaker's direction for the anti-LGBTQI bill to be considered despite ignoring a Constitutional requirement and an opinion by the Attorney General
DL News19 July 2023
Supreme Court News
LGBTQI Bill: Punish Speaker Bagbin for disregarding you –Researcher tells SC
In a contempt summons against the Speaker of Parliament, the applicant avers that despite two substantive pending suits and an application for interlocutory injunction...
DL News14 July 2023
Supreme Court News
AG files Statement of Case, challenges constitutionality of 4 MPs vacating seats
The lawsuit challenges the Speaker of Parliament's decision to declare the seats of four Members of Parliament (MPs) vacant after they expressed their intent to run as independent candidates in the December 2024 elections.
DL News23 October 2024
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H-Kwasi Prempeh writes: 'The lawyerization and judicialization of the business of Parliament is bad for our democracy'
Coming to this business of the motion of censure, we have just witnessed the lawyerization or judicialization of what is fundamentally a political, not a legal, sanction.
H.Kwasi Prempeh22 November 2022
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Ruling on 4 vacant seats- Supreme Court may not be able to overrule Speaker
According to Abotsi, the Speaker has the constitutional authority to make rulings regarding parliamentary procedures.
DL News18 October 2024
Supreme Court News
Purported rejection of 2022 Budget: SC to deliver judgment on Richard Sky suit March 16
The Supreme Court panel presided by Justice Jones Dotse on March 1, adopted and set down a joint memorandum of issues by both parties for determination.
DL News15 March 2022
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Supreme Court at 150 Anniversary Committee pays courtesy call on Speaker Bagbin
The delegation, led by Justice Richard Adjei-Frimpong, a Justice of the Supreme Court and Chairman of the committee, visited the Speaker at Parliament House on Thursday to brief him on activities planned for the anniversary.
DL News12 June 2026
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Draft Parliamentary Transition Bill presented to Speaker
Consultants from the CDT, Professor Kwamina Ahwoi and Nana Ato Dadzie, who made the presentation, noted that the draft bill among others proposes the election of the Speaker of Parliament by an Electoral College of MPs.
DL News25 October 2022
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Clarify ‘on his way to’, ‘attending at or returning from’ in Article 117-Law lecturer to Parliament
Speaking on the Law Program on JoyNews on October 31, 2021, the lecturer further noted that in Australia you cannot serve any process on an MP if you arrest him five days on his way to parliament or five days on returning from parliament.
DL News1 November 2021
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Obstruction of an MP: Only the court can determine that or otherwise-Inusah Fuseini
“He should leave it that way, and then you encourage Members of Parliament to test the limit of contempt of Parliament in court,”
DL News16 November 2021
Supreme Court News
Why Supreme Court rejected Speaker's request to set aside its order for Stay of Execution
It held that the applicant's contention that the apex court does not have the jurisdiction to interpret Article 97 amounts to misinformation.
DL News30 October 2024
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It’s wrong not to grant Chief Justice, Speaker motorcade and siren – Haruna Iddrisu
Following widespread public backlash, the Legislative Instrument (LI) was withdrawn. Subsequently, it reintroduced, this time excluding provisions that would have allowed MPs, the Speaker of Parliament, and the Chief Justice to utilise sire...
myjoyonline5 September 2024
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Akoto Ampaw describes Bagbin’s ruling on Anti-LGBTQI+ Bill as alien to Legislative procedure
On Monday, the speaker of Parliament, Rt Hon. Alban S.K. Bagbin ruled that deliberation and voting on the Anti LGBTQI+ Bill(Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill) will not be a secret vote but public.
DENNISLAW NEWS28 October 2021
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Speaker of Parliament calls for constitutional reforms to have traditional leaders serve as MPs
"Countries like Botswana and Rwanda have gotten it right. The presence of these traditional leaders brings sanity and discipline into the House [Parliament] and contribute to enhancing our rich culture"
GRAPHIC ONLINE11 December 2023