General
IEC releases application guidelines for 2025 GSL entrance exam
In a notice dated July 15, the committee said the examination will take place on Friday September 12 2025, at 12:00 noon.
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Results for "Customary Law Exceptions"
3364 results.
General
Inside the Ghana School of Law: What Every Aspiring Student Should Know
The school operates from its main campus at Makola and has three additional campuses: GIMPA, UPSA, and Kumasi (at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology—KNUST).
Richard Osei Boateng
General
Lebanese Community grants scholarships to 12 University of Ghana law students
This initiative is part of broader efforts to foster educational collaboration between Lebanon and Ghana while supporting academic excellence.
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Africa
South Africa:President signs land seizure law
Despite the end of apartheid over three decades ago, the vast majority of farmland remains in the hands of the white minority, with Black citizens still owning only a small portion.
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Courts
A glimpse of 2024: Top news items on DL News
Our top picks for 2024 include the new requirement by the GBA for lawyers to show proof of CLE participation for licence renewal from 2025 onwards and the viral news of the marriage between the 80-year-old former Education Minister and his...
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General
ICC Chief Prosecutor to deliver lecture at GIMPA
His upcoming trip to Ghana includes a visit to the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Law School.
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Business
GUTA, GIFF raise concern about new Shippers Authority Bill
The President of GUTA, Dr Obeng has thus urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to delay signing the law until those concerns are addressed.
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General
ALSA launches Sarah F Kpodo Int’l moot court contest
The theme for the event was; ‘Empowering Future Generations of Legal Professionals: The Role of Moot Court Competitions in Shaping the Future of Justice.’
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General
GSL SRC launches volunteers initiative
The GSL Volunteers will provide opportunities for all law students to use their education and skills to make positive impact in the communities they serve.
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Africa
Nobody will move us over anti-gay law - Museveni
Mr. Museveni insisted the signing of the law was a done deal, defying calls to have it repealed
BBC
Tech
How ChatGPT challenges current intellectual property laws
New AI technologies may infringe on others’ copyrights by being deemed infringing derivatives of a copyrighted source they used to generate their output.
LAW.COM
General
Law School exams not dreadful- GSL Director
“The most difficult thing that you’ve been made to understand is that examinations at the Law School are dreadful," he said.
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Europe
University announces 'UK first' law degree to tackle climate crisis
Keele University says its law with environmental sustainability degree has been developed to create legal professionals with a good knowledge of companies’ and governments’ environmental obligations, and the legal mechanisms to hold these b...
The Law Society Gazette
General
UG School of Law to launch ‘Africa Data Protection Law and Policy Centre’
The Centre, which is expected to be launched officially on Thursday, September 14, 2022, will be a knowledge hub that will receive issues relating to data in the country and beyond, conduct academic research, and contribute effectively to p...
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General
Naziha Gombilla Amin: First student to chalk First Class Honours at UPSA Law School
Gombilla Amin graduated with an FCGPA of 3.72 which is indeed a covetous feat to reach in one’s academic life in a University and also in no mean program but Law.
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General
President pledges sustenance of fund for Legal Aid, Law Reform Commissions
The creation of the funds is stipulated in section 10 of the Law Reform Commission Act of 2011, Act 822, and section 31 of the Legal Aid Commission Act of 2018, Act 977.
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General
Madina musical advertisement nuisance punishable by a fine of GHC 3000 or 3 months in prison: Did you know?
“A person shall not play or cause to be played any recorded music in public for advertising purposes so as to cause a nuisance to the public.”
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General
Majority of MMDAs do not have in-house lawyers – Lawyer Adjei Dwomoh
The discussions of the programme focused on research by Dennislaw Ghana where it was revealed that 154 MMDAs, (59 per cent of them) operate without by-laws.
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General
Establish legal clinics in Ghanaian law schools – Prof. Frimpong Oppong
Additionally, he asked that regulatory barriers against the establishment and operation of such clinics should be removed.
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General
African Bar Association to hold annual conference from August 7-11, 2022
The theme for this year’s conference is “Instituting an enduring Legacy of Transparent and Accountable Governance in Africa: Basic Issues and Road Map.”
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