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Tech
Women Dominate Big Law Firms and Legal Department in Ghana
Significant efforts are still needed to ensure that there is balance in the male-female ratios of lawyers across the country.
DL News1 September 2021
General
Ghana, North Rhine-Westphalia sign co-operation agreement
President is on a working visit to Germany on the behest of the German Chancellor
DL News27 August 2021
General
Journalist held for 20 years must be freed, UN says
Mr Dawit, who is a Swedish-Eritrean national, set up one of the country’s first independent newspapers in the 1990s.
DL News19 August 2021
Crime
A 21-year-old construction worker who armed himself with an axe to rob his victim of a plate of fried rice and a bag containing mobile phone, necklace and cash has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour.
A search in his room led to the retrieval of a small axe, one Black Berry Mobile phone, a Techno mobile phone and six different SIM cards.
DL News19 August 2021
General
Justice Samuel Marful-Sau, Supreme Court judge passes on
Justice Marful-Sau served as a Justice of the Supreme Court from 2018 until his demise.
DL News10 August 2021
Courts
Father pleads with judge to sentence son for stealing turkey
The court heard that Charles Boadi, a farmer at Kawie, a village near Sawla in the Savanna Region had made attempts to sell the turkey he stole from his father’s poultry farm
DL News8 July 2021
Others
President of Haiti Jovenal Moise ‘is assassinated by gunmen in night time raid on his home’
The 53-year-old was shot dead and the First Lady Martine, 47, was also injured in the attack, Mr Joseph wrote as he condemned the ‘hateful, inhumane and barbaric act.’
DL News7 July 2021
US
Cannabis lawyers say Georgia Supreme court ruling creates ‘chilling effect’
With cannabis still illegal at the federal level, the court held that legal work related to the state’s burgeoning low-THC oil industry amounts to “counseling and assisting clients in the commission of criminal acts.”
DL News5 July 2021
General
“WAEC threat to sue over WASSCE report is unfortunate” – Africa Education Watch
The Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare has noted that the threat by the West African Examinations Council to take legal action against the think-tank following the release of its report on the 2020 WASSCE results is un...
DL News23 June 2021
Business
BoG is a constitutional creation: It cannot decline parliamentary investigations
The central bank declined Parliament's invitation, bringing up instead, a response on its mandate and statutory powers to undertake the banking sector clean-up exercise.
DL News15 June 2021
Europe
U.S, EU agree truce in 17-year aircraft subsidy battle
The two sides have been battling since 2004 in parallel cases at the World Trade Organization over subsidies for U.S. planemaker Boeing (BA.N) and European rival Airbus (AIR.PA)
DL News15 June 2021
General
“Ho 21 LGBT activists haven’t committed any crime,” – CDD-Ghana tells courts
"The occasional use of archaic colonial legal relics like Section 202 of Act 29 by the police to undermine constitutional rights, particularly the right to assemble, exposes the stagnation we continue to experience in efforts to promote and...
DL News11 June 2021
General
PPP slams BoG boss’ comments on Nduom suit
The PPP has described the remarks by the Governor of the Bank of Ghana as "very unfortunate, misleading and mischievous"
DL News8 June 2021
Africa
Egyptian president: We must reach legal agreement on Ethiopian dam
President El-Sisi affirmed Egypt’s position on the imperative to reach a binding legal agreement regarding filling and operating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
DL News13 March 2021
Business
Supporting the legal profession
Legal aid solicitors will benefit from a 10% uplift in legal aid fees and have access to a £9 million fund to help those experiencing hardship as a result of COVID-19.
DL News23 December 2020