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Customary Land Secretariats will prevent multiple sale of land – Lands Commission
The reform is to help prevent the sale of same piece of land to different persons
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Double murder suspect accused of killing his girlfriend and daughter acts as his own lawyer
Oneal could get the death penalty if convicted.
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Crime
W/R: 42-year-old man arrested for allegedly killing girlfriend with hammer
The Western Regional Police Command has arrested a 42-year-old man for allegedly killing his girlfriend with a hammer.
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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.
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US
Former Google Engineer Opens Up: About Her Sexual Harrasment Ordeals At Google
I used to be a Google engineer. That often feels like the defining fact about my life. When I joined the company after college in 2015, it was at the start of a multiyear reign atop Forbes’s list of best workplaces.
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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.
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Courts
Kasoa: Court demands ‘teenage’ murder suspect’s actual age
Police investigators have been given two weeks to establish the actual age of one of the two teenage accused persons, said to have killed 10-year-old Ishmael Mensah Abdallah at Kasoa.
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Crime
Alleged killer of woman at Somanya guest house arrested
The Ghana Police Service has arrested the man allegedly behind the gruesome murder of a young woman found dead in a guest house in Somanya.
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US
Major Paparazzi Agency Bankrupted by Meghan Markle Legal Battle
Splash News & Picture Agency, which has been fighting the duchess in a privacy case, has a reputation for suing celebrities for posting images of themselves on social media.
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Crime
Student Dies After Alleged Assault By Boyfriend
Friends and family of a level 300 student of the Evangelical Presbyterian University College (EPUC), Ho, Elizabeth Akpalu Yesutor, have been thrown into a state of shock and morning after her demise last Monday, march 8 2021.
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US
Jamal Khashoggi: US names Saudi crown prince in connection with murder
A US intelligence report has implicated Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the murder of exiled journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
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Europe
Daphne Caruana Galizia murder: Suspect pleads guilty
One of three men accused of assassinating investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta in 2017 has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty.
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General
Organising weddings at home illegal – Lawyer reacts to Nsiah-Asare’s advice
A private legal practitioner, Sylvester Assan says asking people to organise weddings at home, will be promoting illegal marriages.
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Opinion
Beyond The Land Act: Uncovering The Missing Pieces In Ghana’s Land Governance Framework
This article argues that while Ghana’s Land Act, 2020 is comprehensive, effective land governance depends on recognizing and integrating a wider set of related laws. Justice Alexander Osei Tutu examines over 30 enactments that, although not...
Justice Alexander Osei Tutu
Opinion
Refined Justice for All
The article examines the Justice for All Programme at Kumasi Central Prison in 2025 as a practical justice-sector intervention that brings courts into prison settings to review remand cases, grant or vary bail, and reduce prolonged pre-tria...
Emmanuel Brobbey
Opinion
The Decline of Allodial Title in Ghana
The article retraces the circumstances that have contributed to the decline of allodial interests/titles in Ghana's land law, including provisions in law that have contributed to this realization
Justice Alexander Osei Tutu
Opinion
Better off divorced than widowed?
The author discusses whether or not women are better off divorced with regard to their access to spousal property during the dissolution of the marriage compared to what pertains upon the death of a husband intestate given the current appli...
Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe
Opinion
Does A Poisonous Mango Tree Necessarily Bear Poisoned Mangoes?: The “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree” Doctrine’s Applicability in Ghanaian Evidence Law
The article examines the “fruit of the poisonous tree” doctrine and how Ghanaian courts deal with evidence obtained through unlawful or unconstitutional means. It explains that, following Raphael Cubagee v Michael Yeboah Asare & Others, Gha...
HH Malcolm Bedzrah
Opinion
“Agent For Plaintiff”: A Fatal Misnomer; Why Ghanaian Lawyers Are Unwittingly Forfeiting Their Protections Through the Misdescription of Counsel in Ghanaian Civil Procedure: An Analysis of the Doctrine of Solicitor-Solicitor Agency vs. Lawyer-Client Reality
The article argues that endorsing a writ with “Agent for Plaintiff” wrongly treats the lawyer-client relationship as an agency relationship, whereas Order 2 rule 5(1)(b) of C.I. 47 concerns one lawyer acting as agent for another lawyer. It...
Sedinam Awo Kwadam and Kwadwo Owusu-Ansah
Opinion
Access Versus Standards: The Future of Legal Education in Ghana
The article examines Ghana’s 2026 legal education reforms, arguing that widening access to professional legal training must be matched with strong regulation, transparent bar examinations, adequate teaching capacity, and sustained professio...
Justice Kweku T. Ackaah-Boafo