General
Paternity Leave: Labour Act amendment to be promulgated this year
When passed, the law will among others introduce Paternity leave.
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Results for "E-levy bill"
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Parliament to consider, pass Free SHS Bill into law
This legislation aims to formalize the Free SHS program, ensuring its continuation under future administrations.
DL News
General
Review of Rent Act: Dep Housing Minister leads Koforidua retreat
The event brought together officials from the Ministry of Works and Housing, Attorney General’s Department, Rent Control Department, and the Public Service Commission, among others.
Works and Housing Ministry
Courts
Anti-LGBTQI Bill: Full reasoning of the High Court in dismissing Dafeamekpor’s suit
However, the court, presided over by Justice Ellen Lordina Serwaa Mireku, dismissed the suit.
DL News
General
GARIA Supports Chief Justice Torkonoo's LEADing Justice Initiative
The GARIA delegation joined the launch event to herald a new era of transparency, timely resolution, efficiency, and due process in Ghana’s justice system.
GARIA
Supreme Court News
Dafeamekpor suit: NDC accuses Supreme Court of bias over scheduling of political cases
The party has raised objections to the Chief Justice's decision to prioritize the hearing of a case brought by MP Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor over an earlier case filed by Richard Dela Sky concerning the anti-gay bill.
DL News
Supreme Court News
Anti-LGBTQI Bill: We cannot restrain Parliament based on alleged omission-Supreme Court’s full reasoning
The Supreme Court affirmed that it is unable to injunct the proceedings of Parliament on the basis of an alleged omission and that the matters raised by the applicant are matters to be resolved in the substantive suit.
DL News
General
SONA 2024: Full Speech by President Akufo Addo
The address, mandated by Article 67 of the 1992 Constitution, was delivered by the President in the Chamber of Parliament on Tuesday, 27th February, 2024
DL News
General
Full Speech by President Akufo Addo at the 2023 Ghana Bar Conference
The 2023 Ghana Bar Conference is on the theme: Ensuring High Standard and Integrity in Public Life: The Role of Legal Profession
DL News
Africa
Tinubu signs law on interest-free student loans
Local students in tertiary institutions such as universities, colleges and polytechnics will now be able to easily get interest-free loans from the Nigerian Education Loan Fund to cover tuition fees
BBC
General
Ace Anan Ankomah talks about lawyer-clients billing
He mentioned the Retainer; Fixed fee; hourly bill; Capped fees; Contingency fees; Success fee; Discounted charge; blended fees; Volume discount; The secondment; and Value billing.
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Europe
UK law will recognise children born from rape as 'victims of crime' for first time
England and Wales will be among the first countries in the world to give victim status to those conceived through rape.
Law Society Gazette
Europe
New Zealand imposes lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes
The law states that tobacco can't ever be sold to anybody born on or after January 1, 2009 - and from now on, the minimum age for buying cigarettes will keep going up and up.
Euronews
Africa
Zimbabwe: New law bans MPs with criminal conviction from participating in future elections
According to the country's Electoral Act Amendment Bill, 2022 which was gazetted on Friday, legislators or councillors will be disqualified if they commit physical violence or dishonesty crimes and get convicted within a period of 12 months...
AllAfrica
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North Tongu MP intends to file private members bill to regulate presidential travels
He says in his 13-month tracking of the President’s travels, Nana Akufo-Addo has spent ‘GH¢34 million of taxpayers’ money on chartered flights.
DL News
Africa
Nigeria's kidnapping crisis: Should ransom payments be banned?
Since 2011, kidnappers have collected at least $18m, with more than half of it between 2016 and 2020, says SBM Intelligence, a think-tank based in Lagos.
BBC
Africa
Central African Republic adopts bitcoin as legal tender
The text of the new legislation covers the use of crypto-currencies and those who use them, in online trade, "smart contracts... by blockchain technology and "all electronic transactions.” According to the statement, cryptocurrency exchange...
DL News
General
Pass Surveying Council Bill to improve standards: Surveyors appeal to govt
At a news briefing and launch of the institution’s 17th annual Surveyors’ Week celebration and the opening of its 53rd Annual General Meeting in Accra last Monday, the President of the institution, Dr John Amaglo, said regulation would help...
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General
Removing Chief Justice from GLC may not fix legal education challenges – Kofi Abotsi
The 499 students contend that the pass mark for the entrance exams has always been 50% in both sections of the exams.
DL News
General
They are jokers-Sam Okudzeto describes Dafeamekpor, Sosu for seeking CJ’s removal from the GLC
So I don’t see how the qualified lawyer is going to appear before the court and you say that those for who we are going to appear before do not have any power of control over their training, or education. It’s a joke.
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