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Courts
Ambulance trial: Court directs Ato Forson, others to open defence
With two others, former Deputy Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson are facing charges for causing financial loss over the importation of 200 ambulances
DL News30 March 2023
Courts
Ambulance contract: Court adjourns case to February 14
The prosecution presented its last witness, Mr. Rickson Gyimah, a former investigator with the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO).
DL News10 February 2023
Supreme Court News
Supreme Court quashes High Court’s ruling to allow Anas testify in-camera
In an application dated April 29, 2022, Mr. Nyantakyi described the High Court’s decision as ‘erroneous’, thus seeking the apex court to quash the same.
DL News8 November 2022
Africa
Presidential election petition: High Court blocks Kenya's Chief Justice from gagging lawyers
The High Court quashed the Supreme Court (Presidential Election Petition Amendment Rules) 2022 that outlawed public comments on merits of a presidential election petition once filed at the Supreme Court and while it is still pending determi...
The Nation17 August 2022
Crime
Ghana Armed Forces arrest man for breaching ammunition depot fence
In a statement dated August 1, 2022, and shared on Facebook, GAF stated that the suspect was seeking aluminum plated materials for sale.
DL News2 August 2022
Crime
AMA sanctions street preachers for making noise, operating without permit
Public Health Officers of the Assembly issued the notices on Friday, 15th July 2022 when they stormed the CBD to enforce the Abatement of Noise Bye-Law.
Accra Metropolitan Assembly20 July 2022
Africa
ECOWAS Court declares Nigeria’s Twitter ban unlawful
Following the deletion of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, announced the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria in June 2021.
Premium Times Nig14 July 2022
General
Obtaining President’s permission to acquire farming rights in land unconstitutional, says Justice Osei Tutu
The discussion equally focused on Justice Alexander Osei Tutu’s new book; The Essential Themes in Land and Customary Law. Launched last week at the Law Court Complex, the book dissects Act 1036.
DL News6 June 2022
US
ABA announces 2022 Silver Gavel Awards winners
Each year the American Bar Association presents these awards to recognize work in media and the arts published or presented during the preceding year that has been exemplary in helping to foster the American public’s understanding of the la...
AmericanBar30 May 2022
General
KNUST Faculty of Law to hold 2nd public lecture May 6
KNUST Faculty of Law to hold 2nd public lecture May 6
DL News5 May 2022
General
Read Article 41 of 1992 Constitution regularly for Spirit of Patriotism – Sir Justice Dennis Adjei
Sir Justice Dennis Adjei noted that it is only a regular and routine reading of the article that will enable Ghanaians to develop this all-important value, needed by citizens for the cause of the nation.
DL News18 April 2022
Crime
Police arrests for violent crimes highest in 2021 – Report
Reported police arrest efforts for the period increased from 470 in 2020 to 610 in 2021. This represents a 29.8 per cent increase in arrests, the highest since 2018.
DL News12 April 2022
Courts
Saglemi Housing trial: State to file final witness statements, adjourned to May 11
Former Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing and Member of Parliament for Asutifi South Constituency, Alhaji Collins Dauda, and four others have been charged with the offence of causing financial loss to the State; intentionally mi...
DL News5 April 2022
Courts
Maintaining public confidence: Courts must avoid construing ‘bright-line’ rules- Prof Asare
A D&D Fellow in Public Law and Justice at CDD-Ghana, Prof. Stephen Kwaku Asare has called on courts to avoid construing bright-line rules.
DL News17 January 2022
General
Samson’s Take: International Anti-Corruption Day – integrity
We could each start with road traffic offences, and play active citizen-watch for a vigorous use of the 2020 amended law (section 252 of the Criminal Offences Act) that punishes bribery with 12 – 25 years in jail.
SAMSON LARDY ANYENINI13 December 2021
General
Pass the Affirmative Action Bill-MASLOC CEO appeals to Parliament
The Bill proposes that anyone who insults a woman just because she is vying for public office should be liable for prosecution.
DL News9 November 2021
General
Causing financial loss: Be circumspect of seemingly harmless actions or omissions-Justice Brobbey
Speaking on the topic “Ingredients of the law of causing financial loss to the state,” at a two-day training workshop organized by the Centre for Practical and Multidisciplinary Legal Education and Training (CPMLET), UPSA, Justice Brobbey n...
DL News8 November 2021
Courts
Chop Bar operator fined GH¢ 800.00 over unsanitary conditions
The accused person Ama Oye was charged with improper disposal of waste water at public space and preparing food for public consumption under unsanitary conditions.
DL News5 November 2021
General
Registrar-General cautions public against activities of fraudsters
We wish to inform the general public that, the Department has not assigned nor authorized any intermediary or agent to call clients to demand money to file Annual Returns.
DL News2 November 2021
General
Xavier-Sosu: Police deny reports of attempted arrest of MP at church
“The MP, Hon. Francis Xavier-Sosu was invited on the day of the protest to assist the Police for his alleged involvement in the unlawful blockade of a road and the destruction of public property but he declined the invitation. He declined f...
DL News1 November 2021