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Asia
Japan ‘Black Widow’ serial killer loses death sentence appeal
Kakehi was sentenced to death in 2017 for the killings, which occurred between 2007 and 2013 in Kyoto, Osaka and Hyogo.
DL News30 June 2021
General
You can revoke a will by tearing it up or creating a new one – Legal expert
This should be done only when the content of the old will does not fulfill the prevailing desires of the testator
DL News28 June 2021
Africa
Constant Omari: DR Congo’s former Fifa Council member handed one-year ban
The former Fifa Council member was adjudged to have received benefits from Lagardere during negotiations between the French media company and Caf.
DL News24 June 2021
Africa
ECOWAS Court finds Mali in violation of widow’s right to dignity, awards victim USD 181,000 for damages
The case was filed in November 2019 by Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) and Malian partner Association pour le Progrès et le Défense des Droits des Femmes au Mali (APDF), on behalf of the victim.
DL News23 June 2021
US
Jay-Z files lawsuit against Hip-Hop photographer Jonathan Mannion in likeness dispute
The rapper is accusing Mannion, who shot the iconic cover of his debut album Reasonable Doubt, of “exploiting” his name and image “without [his] consent.”
DL News18 June 2021
Africa
Nigeria ‘Won’t Prosecute Citizens Still Tweeting’
Most Nigerians have been tweeting since the ban came into effect last Friday, using virtual private networks to bypass a block on Twitter
DL News11 June 2021
Courts
Alleged murder of charcoal burner: Court remands 3 cops, 2 others
The Sunyani High Court 2 last Thursday granted a GH¢100,000 bail with two sureties to one of the six persons accused of the murder and secret burial of a 48-year-old charcoal burner, Abu Bukari Bahala, at Seikwa in the Tain District in the...
DL News24 May 2021
Courts
Rastafarian Saga: Applicant not a student of Achimota School – AG
Mr Godfred Yeboah Dame, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, has challenged the action of Tyron Iras Marghuy, one of the Rastafarian Students, who was allegedly denied admission by the Achimota School.
DL News17 May 2021
Africa
Copyright protection in the digital age
Year 2020 forced changes in the way we do things in the world, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is still on rampage. Several countries went into series of lockdowns and ordered its citizens to stay at home.
DL News4 May 2021
Africa
Kenya has its first female chief justice: Martha Koome
If parliament formally approves the nomination of Justice Martha Koome as the next Chief Justice of Kenya and president of the Supreme Court, as is widely expected, she will become the first woman to occupy the seat in Kenya’s history. Just...
DL News3 May 2021
US
Disabled people can be taken to prostitutes by care workers, judge rules
Decision means carers who help people with disabilities to visit sex workers will not be committing a criminal offence
DL News2 May 2021
General
Wendy Asiamah Addo :(Wendy Shay) Threatens legal Action Against Producers of Netflix Movie ‘Slay’
Ghanaian singer Wendy Shay has threatened to sue the producers of ‘Slay’ an African movie streaming on Netflix, for using her song without her permission.
DL News28 April 2021
US
George Floyd: Jury finds Derek Chauvin guilty of murder
A US jury has found a former police officer guilty of murder over the death of African-American George Floyd on a Minneapolis street last year.
DL News21 April 2021
US
U.S. Supreme Court refuses to ‘Free the Nipple’ in topless women case
The Supreme Court on Monday decided not to “Free the Nipple,” refusing to hear an appeal by three women fined by a city in New Hampshire for exposing their breasts in public who argued that banning female but not male toplessness violates t...
DL News20 April 2021
General
ADR Week commemorated; 2,312 cases settled last year
This year’s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Week was yesterday commemorated in Ada in the Greater Accra Region.
DL News13 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
US
Uber ordered to pay $1.1 million to blind passenger who was denied rides 14 separate times
An independent arbitrator on Thursday ordered Uber to pay $1.1 million to a blind passenger for illegally discriminating against her after its drivers refused her rides on 14 occasions.
DL News3 April 2021
Europe
Russia now requires all smartphones and devices in the country to have Russian software preinstalled
Russia now requires all smart devices – including phones, computers, and TVs – in the country to have Russian software preinstalled, in what some locals have called a “law against Apple
DL News3 April 2021
Africa
Law firms expand in Africa
South African law firm Webber Wentzel has bagged a team of M&A lawyers from Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, while Fluxmans Attorneys has hired a new director.
DL News30 March 2021
US
A song-theft lawsuit that accused Ariana Grande of ripping off an earlier song on her 2019 hit ‘7 Rings’ has been settled
Grande and her many co-writers on the 2019 track were sued last year by Josh Stone. He said Grande’s hit lifted elements of his song ‘You Need It, I Got It’. The lawsuit stated that “a lay person listening to the ‘hook’ and chorus of both s...
DL News22 March 2021