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General
Speaker, MPs others not granted immunity from arrest-2 citizens file suit at SC
Deputy speaker or a Member or the Clerk to Parliament while he is about his personal affairs or ordinarily engaged in any activities in a constituency.
DL News20 November 2021
US
US seizes DR Congo citizens for ivory trafficking
They could face a maximum of over 20 years’ imprisonment if convicted, the justice department says.
DL News9 November 2021
Courts
Litigation and Technology: Making the case for virtual courts in Ghana
Certainly, a virtual court in Ghana will benefit the courts/judicial system, clients, lawyers and the environment
DL News5 November 2021
General
IGP pledges to make Police Service most respected organization
At age 51, he will be the youngest IGP to serve in the Fourth Republic and the eighth youngest since independence.
DL News8 October 2021
Courts
S/A President invites public nominations for next Chief Justice
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng started his professional career as a temporary interpreter and was later appointed as High Court prosecutor from March 1986 to February 1990 in Mafikeng.
DL News17 September 2021
General
Reforming local governance system
Clearly, the participation of political parties in the general election accounts significantly for such high voter turnout for these elections.
DL News6 September 2021
General
Appointing MPs onto boards of government agencies unconstitutional – Prof Abotsi
The only body that has become very powerful, under the Fourth Republic is the Executive. And all the other organs have gradually and in a very creeping way, weaken themselves.
DL News30 August 2021
Courts
NDC MP sues state over MMDCEs serving in acting capacity
The delay in the announcement of MMDCEs appointments has caused considerable anxiety among the rank and file of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
DL News26 August 2021
Courts
Attorney General wants Justice Honyenugah back in Opuni case
In July 2021, Dr Opuni’s lawyers filed an application at the Supreme Court asking that it restrains Justice Honyenuga from hearing the matter.
DL News25 August 2021
Courts
Redundant Tribunals under Ghana’s 1992 constitutional democracy: ‘Legal non grata’ or “regime effect”?
In fact Article 126(1)(a) of the 1992 Constitution ranks the High Court at the same level as the Regional Tribunal and both of them are part of the Superior Courts of Ghana
DL News11 August 2021
Supreme Court News
Abronye sues AG at the Supreme Court over salaries of First, Second Ladies
He is in the Supreme Court to seek inter alia a declaration that, the decision to pay emoluments of spouses of the president and vice president is inconsistent with the 1992 Constitution
DL News8 July 2021
General
Pay extra attention to resourcing the Police Service - GBA to President
Mr. Forson bemoaned the ill-equipped nature of the Ghana Police Service and called for extra attention to be given to them in that regard.
DL News1 July 2021
General
AG apt to represent the police in this injunction case - High Court tells FixTheCountry convenors
The conveners of the FixTheCountry protest had argued that only the police service has the power to make such requests under the Public Order Act
DL News25 June 2021
General
Ayine’s opinion does not violate any rule or Professional conduct rules for lawyers-NDC to CJ
In a petition dated May 25, 2021, Dr.Ayine was referred to the General Legal Council, by Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, acting as a Complainant, for the comments made at the roundtable discussion, which he found “disparaging… and unaccept...
DL News22 June 2021
Courts
Submission of no case: High Court to deliver a ruling in Capital Bank case
The four have been charged with 26 counts of conspiracy to steal, abetment of crime, namely stealing, stealing, and money laundering
DL News10 June 2021
General
Be lawyers with ‘Bold Spirits’-Rector charges students
The Rector has charged the law graduates to rise above being timorous souls
DL News8 June 2021
Election Petition
2020 Parliamentary Election Dispute: Assin North M.P. petitions Chief Justice to remove trial Judge
Hon. James Gyekye Quayson has through his lawyers, petitioned the Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana; His Lordship Kwasi Anin Yeboah to remove the judge hearing the petition, challenging his election as the Member of Parliament in the 2...
DL News2 June 2021
General
‘The repeal of the Criminal Libel Law has had a very positive impact on the development of the Ghanaian media’ –President Akufo-Addo
The President of the Republic of Ghana; H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo has stated that he is proud of the modest role he played in the repeal of the Criminal Libel Law on 2nd August 2001 as an Attorney General.
DL News2 June 2021
General
Chief Justice Bemoans Demolition Orders Of Courts
The Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana; His Lordship Justice Anin Yeboah has bemoaned the demolition orders usually issued by magistrates, trial judges and justices of trial courts in Ghana.
DL News31 May 2021
Africa
ICC sentences Ugandan rebel leader Ongwen to 25 years in prison
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday sentenced Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier turned commander of the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, to 25 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
DL News7 May 2021