Search results for "Democratic Republic of Congo"

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General
Speaker, MPs others not granted immunity from arrest-2 citizens file suit at SC
Deputy speaker or a Member or the Clerk to Parliament while he is about his personal affairs or ordinarily engaged in any activities in a constituency.
DL News20 November 2021
Courts
Litigation and Technology: Making the case for virtual courts in Ghana
Certainly, a virtual court in Ghana will benefit the courts/judicial system, clients, lawyers and the environment
DL News5 November 2021
General
IGP pledges to make Police Service most respected organization
At age 51, he will be the youngest IGP to serve in the Fourth Republic and the eighth youngest since independence.
DL News8 October 2021
Courts
S/A President invites public nominations for next Chief Justice
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng started his professional career as a temporary interpreter and was later appointed as High Court prosecutor from March 1986 to February 1990 in Mafikeng.
DL News17 September 2021
General
Appointing MPs onto boards of government agencies unconstitutional – Prof Abotsi
The only body that has become very powerful, under the Fourth Republic is the Executive. And all the other organs have gradually and in a very creeping way, weaken themselves.
DL News30 August 2021
Courts
NDC MP sues state over MMDCEs serving in acting capacity
The delay in the announcement of MMDCEs appointments has caused considerable anxiety among the rank and file of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
DL News26 August 2021
Courts
Attorney General wants Justice Honyenugah back in Opuni case
In July 2021, Dr Opuni’s lawyers filed an application at the Supreme Court asking that it restrains Justice Honyenuga from hearing the matter.
DL News25 August 2021
Crime
AfDB debars Sargittarius Nigeria for 18 months for fraudulent practices
The debarment renders Sargittarius Nigeria Limited and its affiliates ineligible to participate in Bank Group-financed projects during the debarment period.
DL News23 August 2021
Supreme Court News
Abronye sues AG at the Supreme Court over salaries of First, Second Ladies
He is in the Supreme Court to seek inter alia a declaration that, the decision to pay emoluments of spouses of the president and vice president is inconsistent with the 1992 Constitution
DL News8 July 2021
General
Pay extra attention to resourcing the Police Service - GBA to President
Mr. Forson bemoaned the ill-equipped nature of the Ghana Police Service and called for extra attention to be given to them in that regard.
DL News1 July 2021
General
AG apt to represent the police in this injunction case - High Court tells FixTheCountry convenors
The conveners of the FixTheCountry protest had argued that only the police service has the power to make such requests under the Public Order Act
DL News25 June 2021
Courts
Submission of no case: High Court to deliver a ruling in Capital Bank case
The four have been charged with 26 counts of conspiracy to steal, abetment of crime, namely stealing, stealing, and money laundering
DL News10 June 2021
General
Be lawyers with ‘Bold Spirits’-Rector charges students
The Rector has charged the law graduates to rise above being timorous souls
DL News8 June 2021
General
‘The repeal of the Criminal Libel Law has had a very positive impact on the development of the Ghanaian media’ –President Akufo-Addo
The President of the Republic of Ghana; H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo has stated that he is proud of the modest role he played in the repeal of the Criminal Libel Law on 2nd August 2001 as an Attorney General.
DL News2 June 2021
General
Chief Justice Bemoans Demolition Orders Of Courts
The Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana; His Lordship Justice Anin Yeboah has bemoaned the demolition orders usually issued by magistrates, trial judges and justices of trial courts in Ghana.
DL News31 May 2021
Africa
UN ‘alarmed’ over CAR use of private military groups
The UN has expressed alarm at the increase in the recruitment and use of foreign private military and security companies by Central African Republic (CAR) government.
DL News1 April 2021
Opinion
The Pretrial Detainee in Ghanaian Civil Litigation: A Constitutional and International Human Rights Appraisal of Order 73 Of C.I. 47 and Order 12 of C.I. 59; A Case for the Expungement of Absconding Warrants from Ghanaian Civil Procedure
This article argues that Ghana's civil procedure rules—specifically Order 73 of C.I. 47 and Order 12 of C.I. 59—violate constitutional and international human rights by allowing pretrial detention of civil defendants based solely on unprove...
Sedinam Awo Kwadam19 November 2025
Opinion
When the Clock Trumps the Merits: A Critical Examination of the Supreme Court's Decision In Ex Parte Nyindam and Its Implications for Democratic Governance
The article critiques the Supreme Court’s decision in Ex parte Mathew Nyindam, which quashed the Kpandai election-petition judgment because the petition was filed outside the mandatory 21-day statutory period. It argues that the Court eleva...
Nii Kpakpo Samoa Addo26 July 2026
Opinion
Stay of Proceedings of A Case: A Legal Gymnastics Tool to Delay Proceedings Before a Trial Court?
The article explains that merely filing a repeat application for stay of proceedings, or an application for certiorari or prohibition, does not automatically halt proceedings before a trial court. A stay only arises where the trial or appel...
Francis Obiri24 September 2026
Opinion
He who alleges must prove
I keep reading this argument that because article 64 proceedings are ‘SUI GENERIS,’ (to wit of its own kind; unique) somehow, known rule of evidence do not or should not apply, and that the common law-based adversarial system of justice sho...
ghanaweb.com3 November 2021