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General
Anti-LGBT Bill laid in Parliament
advocating for LGBQ rights would also be illegal under the bill, with activists facing jail sentences of between five and ten years.
DL News3 August 2021
Courts
NDC lawyer confident in appeal against Cape Coast judgment on Assin North election
According to Mr. Tamakloe, the NDC has sufficient reasons to challenge the court’s ruling, adding that a refusal to do so would set a bad precedent for the country’s democracy.
DL News3 August 2021
Courts
Supreme Court allows trustees of Edward Osei Boakye to collect $2.5m unpaid rent from Yaw Boakye
In granting the application, the Supreme Court agreed with counsel and held that Article 129 (4) of the 1992 Constitution was intended to prevent litigants from “re-opening matters already settled
DL News3 August 2021
Africa
Angola ex-president’s daughter ordered to return $500 million in energy shares
The British-educated billionaire businesswoman has faced several allegations of plundering the public purse and funnelling the money abroad.
DL News2 August 2021
Courts
Chief Justice’s integrity unquestionable – JUSAC President declares
Mr Nartey asserted that the Office of the Chief Justice was a constitutionally created and secure office and so the Constitution enjoined anybody who sought to call on the President to impeach the Chief Justice to follow the laid down proce...
DL News2 August 2021
Courts
Chief Justice’s integrity unquestionable – JUSAC President declares
The Chief Justice, the JUSAG President admitted, was not immune from questions of alleged misconduct
DL News2 August 2021
General
Anti-LGBTQI+ Bill is to expand legislation on homosexuality, not to criminalize
They are setting up recruitment drives in our Secondary Schools, they have pimps in the secondary schools who they pay monies to [recruit the students]
DL News31 July 2021
General
Amnesty International condemns excesses by security personnel
A recent incident was the clash between some residents of Ejura in the Ashanti Region and the military, which led to the death of two persons, with four others injured.
DL News30 July 2021
US
Colorado officer arrested after threatening to shoot suspect during stop
A bill passed by Colorado’s legislature last year bars police from using deadly force against suspects unless they are facing imminent danger from a weapon.
DL News29 July 2021
Courts
Supreme Court stops Justice Honyenuga from hearing Opuni case
They have both pleaded not guilty to the charges, and are on a ¢300,000 self-recognizance bail, each.
DL News28 July 2021
Crime
R. Kelly accused of sexually abusing a teenage boy
The court filing alleges that Kelly believed he had impregnated Aaliyah, then 15, and wanted to marry her, so she could not be made to testify against him in court
DL News26 July 2021
Africa
Sierra Leone parliament passes bill to abolish death penalty
The bill now awaits presidential assent from President Julius Maada Bio.
DL News26 July 2021
General
Anti-LGBT Bill: Let us create gay prisons as well – Researcher fumes
According to Justice Abdulai, the Anti-LGBT bill is a very beautiful piece of legislation that should be passed into law.
DL News26 July 2021
General
Over 14 million potential taxpayers identified after integration of Ghana Card and TIN – GRA
Mrs Victoria M.E. Hajar, the First Vice President of GNCCI, expressed appreciation to the GRA for the partnership to address key tax issues affecting businesses as well as sensitize and dialogue with the business community on tax administra...
DL News23 July 2021
Courts
ADR: 5,455 cases mediated last year
We can only achieve the excellence we seek if judicial outcomes are not the product of long, drawn out processes that lead to pyrrhic victories for the parties in a dispute,” Justice Larbi said.
DL News21 July 2021
General
Inciting people to violence must be added to crimes against humanity – Kpebu
“Yes, there is free speech [in the country], but free speech doesn’t mean any speech at all, not even in the US where they guard free speech so jealously.”
DL News19 July 2021
Courts
FLASHBACK: High Court Judgment, Gloria Odartey Lamptey v Nii Odartey Lamptey [PDF]
The vehicles were to be transferred to the petitioner within 30 days and the Dome residence within 40 days, failure of which the registrar was mandated to execute the conveyance.
DL News16 July 2021
Asia
‘Remarried widow can’t get ex-husband’s property’-High Court in Chhattisgarh declares
They said Kiya had never remarried and the civil suit should be dismissed.
DL News16 July 2021
Business
FGR Bogoso Prestea to settle severance package of disgruntled workers
Mining operations can now continue in the interest of all parties and the local communities,” the communique noted.
DL News16 July 2021
Europe
French champagne industry group fumes over new Russian champagne law
The “Comite Champagne” (Champagne Committee) added in a statement that it was also calling on French and European Union diplomats to get the law changed.
DL News5 July 2021