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General
Install CCTVs in interrogation rooms — PPP
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has called for the installation of closed-circuit television (CCTV) in all interrogation rooms to enhance supervision.
DL News18 May 2021
General
Parliament will carry out its own investigation into alleged assault on Citi FM journalists – James Agalga
The Ranking Member, Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence and Interior, says Parliament will probe the alleged assault on Citi FM journalist, Caleb Kudah, by operatives of the National Security Ministry.
DL News15 May 2021
Courts
MP Murder Case: Defence wants court and jury to move to the crime scene
Defence counsel for the two accused persons being held over the murder of former Abuakwa North Member of Parliament has prayed the Accra High Court trying them move the jury to the crime scene being the house of the slain legislator.
DL News12 May 2021
Courts
I panicked when I saw ladder placed in front of slain MP’s house – Security guard
A security man in the house of the slain legislator, J.B. Danquah-Adu, has recounted to an Accra High Court, how he was struck with fear when he saw a ladder placed in front of the house of his former boss on February 9, 2016.
DL News8 May 2021
Courts
GHAMRO wins court case against telecommunications networks
The Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO) has won a case they filed against telecommunication companies MTN, Vodafone, and Airtel Tigo four years ago.
DL News7 May 2021
Courts
Mahama Ayariga acquitted and discharged over ambulance trial
The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mr Mahama Ayariga, who was standing trial over alleged procurement breaches in an ambulance purchase has been acquitted and discharged by the Accra High Court.
DL News7 May 2021
Courts
CEO of K. Ofori Enterprise, 3 others in court over GH¢1.6 billion alleged tax evasion
State prosecutors have dragged the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of K. Ofori Enterprise and three others to court for what the prosecution has told the court was an alleged evasion of tax to the tune of GH¢1.6 billion.
DL News7 May 2021
General
CSTS trains public on boardroom dynamics
Corporate Secretarial and Training Services Ltd on Friday organised a training session for some members of the public.
DL News3 May 2021
Election Petition
Banda parliamentary petition: Court orders parties to file witness statements
The Sunyani High Court has given parties involved in the 2020 parliamentary election suit on the Banda Constituency in the Bono Region a 14-day ultimatum to file their witness statements.
DL News26 April 2021
Courts
Sunyani court sentences farmer, 37, to 30 years imprisonment
The Sunyani High Court 2 has sentenced a 37-year-old farmer, Solomon Kodua, to 30 years imprisonment in hard labour for slashing the neck of his 33-year-old girlfriend, Comfort Mansa.
DL News25 April 2021
Courts
Alleged coup plotters charged with high treason, granted Ghc18m bail
The 10 persons alleged to have plotted to destabilise the country have been granted bail in the total sum of Ghc18 million after being charged with high treason.
DL News25 April 2021
Courts
Court rejects bail application of business executive held over spousal murder
An Accra High Court has rejected the bail application of Prince Charles Dedjoe, a business executive, accused of murdering his wife at East Legon, Accra.
DL News21 April 2021
US
US poised to impose sanctions on Russia for cyber-attacks
The US government is set to issue a wide range of sanctions against Russia, according to reports.
DL News15 April 2021
Courts
Dreadlocks saga: Achimota school sued again
Oheneba Kwaku Nkrabea, one of the two Rastafarian students at the centre of the Achimota School admission brouhaha has also sued the school over his rejection.
DL News7 April 2021
General
CHRAJ Director calls for establishment of domestic violence fund
Government has been called upon to expedite action in establishing the domestic violence fund to cater for the needs of victims of domestic violence as provided for in Section 29 of the Domestic Violence Act 2007 (Act 732).
DL News6 April 2021
US
Trump Twitter Blocking Suit Deleted By Supreme Court
Now that Donald Trump is no longer in office (and has been banned from the social media site), the high court found the four-year-old dispute over the First Amendment implications of his blocking of political critics on Twitter to be moot.
DL News6 April 2021
Courts
Maj. Mahama: Evidential video to be shown in court on April 12
An Accra High Court, hearing the case of the alleged murderers of the late Major Maxwell Mahama, will on April 12, 2021, show in open court an evidential video by the prosecution.
DL News31 March 2021
Africa
Press release on the abitrary use of judicial power by magisterate Ibrahim Mohammed of Zone 6 Magisterate Court Abuja
The Attention of the Nigerian Bar Association Abuja (Unity Bar) has been drawn to a bizarre event that ensured between one of our member MR EBURU EKWE BARTH and a Magisterate wherein it was alleged that Mr EBURU EKWE BARTH interjected the M...
DL News23 March 2021
General
Build shelters for domestic abuse victims – Government urged
The Director of the Legal Assistance Network-Ghana has urged the government to build shelters for domestic violence victims to help minimise the abuse culture.
DL News21 March 2021
Others
Jamaica’s high court ruled Friday that a school was within its rights to demand that a girl cut her dreadlocks to attend classes
The ruling by the Supreme Court of Jamaica capped a two-year battle after the girl — then 5 years old — was told she must cut her dreadlocks for “hygiene” reasons to study at Kensington Primary School in a Kingston suburb.
DL News21 March 2021