Supreme Court News
Supreme Court case diary for week commencing March 13, 2024
Cases up for consideration include civil appeals, and civil motions scheduled for only a first session at the court.
DL News
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Courts
CEO in court over fraud charge
Adam, also businessman, is said to have received the money from Charity Atiim under the pretext of supplying her with 1,000 bags of 50 kg rice, 50 gallons of edible oil and 30 bags of sugar to be given to schools in the Northern Region
GNA
Crime
Court orders arrest of 42-year-old retired Military Officer over enlistment fraud
Mr Daniel Asiedu is accused of collecting GH₵194,500.00 under the pretext of enlisting the youth in security services but failed.
GNA
Courts
Businessman on bail over alleged threat of death
Alfred Alorde is accused of threatening to kill a colleague.
GNA
Courts
Two alleged impersonators of Okudzeto Ablakwa granted bail
Promise Ahorgah, a phone repairer and Kwaotse Mawuli, a construction laborer, were admitted to bail in the sum of GHC50,000 each with two sureties one to be justified.
GNA
Courts
He said he would ‘break me’; How 30-year Oakwood School teacher escaped jail
However, at the end of the trial, the court held that the accused, per his defense, had been able to raise a reasonable doubt in the prosecution’s case and was thus acquitted and discharged.
DL News
Supreme Court News
Supreme Court case diary for week commencing February 14, 2024
The particular cases up for consideration include civil appeals and a civil motion scheduled for only a first session at the court.
DL News
Crime
Soldier in trouble over alleged GH₵136K recruitment scam
Clement Ayomah, charged with defrauding by false pretences, pleaded not guilty.
GNA
Europe
UK: DJ jailed for urinating on cancer patient
The court heard Brookfield had filmed himself urinating on a man at a social club, before posting the video online.
Sky News
Crime
Student convicted for stealing an iPhone
Nerous Asahene-Addo, the accused, pleaded guilty to both counts of unlawful entry and stealing and was sentenced accordingly by the court or in default serve a 20- month prison term in hard labour.
GNA
Europe
UK: Former solicitor jailed for defrauding clients of £1.7m ordered to pay back £3,000
The now struck-off solicitor, admitted in 2004, pleaded guilty to seven charges of fraud last year and was sentenced to 56 months’ imprisonment.
Law Society Gazette
US
Massachusetts court rules lawyer’s nap during murder trial created ‘uncurable error’, violating defendant's constitutional right
Lawyer fell asleep during jury selection and testimony. Defendant granted new trial by Massachusetts’ top court
Bloomberg Law
Supreme Court News
Justices Kwofie, Asare, Adjei-Frimpong sworn into Supreme Court
The Justices; Henry Anthony Kwofie, Yaw Darko Asare, and Richard Adjei-Frimpong, were appointed owing to the mandatory retirements of Justices Amegatcher, former CJ Anin Yeboah, and Jones Dotse last year
DL News
Courts
Farmer jailed and fined over visa fraud
Dominic Ampea is to pay a fine of GHC3,600 in default serve 18 months imprisonment.
GNA
Courts
Crane operator gets 15 years in hard labour
The court, presided over by Mrs Eleanor Kakra Banes Botchway, sentenced the accused after a full trial of which the court found him guilty and convicted.
GNA
Courts
Driver jailed for stealing gun, heavy industrial machines worth GH¢87,000
Abu Mohammed was found guilty by an Accra Circuit Court on the charges of stealing.
GNA
Courts
Housekeeper jailed for stealing gun, other industrial machines
Abu Mohammed was found guilty by an Accra Circuit Court on the charges of stealing.
GNA
Europe
Prince Harry 'unjustifiably treated less favourably than others' over protection in UK, court told
Harry is taking legal action against Britain's Home Office over a decision in February 2020 that meant he would no longer be given the "same degree" of personal protective security when visiting.
Sky News
Courts
78-year-old ex-soldier jailed 12 years for defilement
It was the Gender-Based Violence Circuit Court at Nungua, presided over Dora G A Inkumsah Eshun, which found him guilty and sentenced him on November 28, 2023.
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Europe
British lawyers could be based in Rwandan courts as part of asylum plans
The Rwanda policy, first announced in April 2022, would see some asylum seekers sent to the east African country to claim asylum there.
BBC