Courts
Order to produce citizenship renunciation: Jomoro MP appeals
The Court of Appeal is expected to sit on Monday, July 26, 2021, for the MP’s counsel to move the motion on the stay of execution.
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Results for "citizenship by birth"
198 results.
Courts
Court jails three Cameroonians over immigration and documentation crimes
Tibab Beltus Mbachick, Mbaku Ransson, Mba Dieudonne Akuro were fined GH¢4,000 each and they are to serve a month’s imprisonment each.
GNA
Europe
UK: Woman claiming to be Christ warned to stop using court time
The court heard that Michelle Andrea Derrig, known as Michelle Andrea Hargreaves after marriage, changed her name last November to Jesus Christ.
The Law Society Gazette
Africa
Gay Namibian couple’s son granted citizenship
The couple, Namibian Philip Lühl and his Mexican husband Guillermo Delgado, already have twin daughters, who were also born in South Africa via surrogacy.
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US
Georgia woman sues IVF clinic after giving birth to wrong baby
Krystena Murray underwent in-vitro fertilization (IVF) at Coastal Fertility Clinic in May 2023, believing she was carrying an embryo created from her own egg and a chosen sperm donor.
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Crime
3 persons arrested for allegedly stealing week-old baby
The suspects, Magdalene Nana Adwoa Boafo, 28, Faustina Binney, 32, and Eunice Koomson, 36, a teacher, allegedly took the baby from its mother.
GNA
Africa
No legal duty to disclose an extra-marital affair, says SA judge
The judge dismissed a damages claim brought by a man against his former wife. The man accused his wife of fraud because she did not disclose an extra-marital affair which led to the birth of their third child.
Ground Up
Crime
Attempted abortion : Mother can be charged with Murder, Manslaughter if it kills child given birth to - GIMPA Lecturer
“If you attempt to abort and you fail and you deliver and the child lives for some time and dies as a result of the earlier abortion, the presumption is that, the human being who is now a person has died."
DL News
Courts
Nigerian fined GHC 3000 for attempting to acquire Ghana Card
The accused was said to have had in possession a valid Ghanaian Birth Certificate
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General
Patients do not have the right to dictate to doctors what mode of treatment they want – Medical and Dental Council
“The most important thing is for the doctor to have a conversation with the patient,
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General
Domelevo’s ‘constructive dismissal’ started last year – Kwaku Azar
A US-based lawyer, Professor Kwaku Asare, has suggested that events surrounding the removal of the Auditor General, Daniel Yao Domelevo show that the government’s ultimate plan has always been to have him removed from office.
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Election Petition
2020 Election Petition not novel
Lest we forget, the 2020 Election Petition is not novel. It appears to be a rehashed of the 2012 Election Petition. Aside the swapping of roles, the key issue and actors remain the same: Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Electoral Commission and...
DL News
General
Mpreaso MP backs bill to loosen dual-citizenship limits on public office
The proposed change targets constitutional rules that prevent some Ghanaians from holding certain public offices because they hold dual citizenship or are seen as having allegiance to another country.
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General
524 Diasporan Africans granted Ghanaian citizenship
The new citizens, who took the oath of allegiance administered by a Court of Appeal Justice, are the latest group to benefit from President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government initiative aimed at reconnecting the African diaspora with...
GNA
Supreme Court News
Dual citizens can now occupy these public offices; Supreme Court significant inroad on citizenship
Specifically, the apex court held that sections 16(2)(a) and 16(2)(h)-(l) of the Act are unconstitutional, having been enacted contrary to Article 289(2) of the 1992 Constitution.
DL News
Courts
Jomoro MP case: Court set June 6, 7 for trial to commence
The court arrived at this date after a successful case management Conference on April 11. 2022.
DL News
General
Court issues bench warrant for Jomoro MP’s arrest
The MP subsequently filed a motion for stay of execution pending appeal at the Court of Appeal but was unanimously dismissed on July 26, 2021.
DENNISLAW NEWS
Europe
Ecuador revokes WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s citizenship
ssange fled to Ecuador’s embassy in London in 2012 to avoid extradition
DL News
Courts
Assin North: Don’t waste resources on criminal case against Gyakye Quayson – Kpebu
Recent history has seen a former Member of Parliament jailed for a similar offence.
DL News
Crime
Assin North: CID invites former MP, Joe Gyakye Quayson for interrogation
The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, prayed to the Clerk of Parliament to allow Quayson to participate in the election of the Speaker and “let him bear the consequences” thereafter.
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