Crime
Car dealer, two others remanded over alleged GH₵620,000 gold scam
Gbegoueu Evrard, a French national, is said to have collected the money under the pretext of selling gold to the complainant, Hayford Boadi.
GNA
Results for "Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ)"
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Courts
Ex-Assembly member in court for not constructing funded road project
Ashitey, a former assembly member for Adobetor electoral area in La Dadekotpon Municipality, has been charged with defrauding by false pretences, using public office for profit, money laundering.
GNA
Courts
Woman sentenced for pouring hot palmnut soup on boyfriend’s wife
Afia Agyeiwaa simply admitted to inflicting harm on Madam Vida Ntiamoah when she was arraigned in November 2023, but her sentencing was deferred until February 15, 2024.
GNA
Courts
Six held for allegedly spreading misinformation about Herbert Mensah
The six are facing a conspiracy charge to commit offensive conduct, that they have denied, and have been given GHC50,000.00 bail with three sureties each.
GNA
Europe
UK solicitor who borrowed £630,000 from clients is struck off lawyers roll
Jack Grunhut was found to have backdated an application for stamp duty land tax relief, took out loans from clients and received referral payments for referring clients to a short-term lender.
The Law Society Gazette
Courts
Farmer granted GH¢300,000 bail over alleged robbery
Yakubu Iddrisu is also said to have forcibly snatched the driver’s Samsung A3 mobile phone, ignition key and an unspecified amount of money.
GNA
Courts
Accountant in GH¢2.4m tax evasion case files for bail
Adedina’s lawyers filed a plea for bail after the court remanded him until his first appearance on January 4, 2024.
GNA
Courts
Pastor in court over visa fraud
Bismark Quaoo Yankey, charged with five counts of defrauding by false pretences, pleaded not guilty.
GNA
Supreme Court News
Magnanimity gone bad: Supreme Court saves man from losing Airport House to friend’s wife
"A transaction between two close friends got entangled in the vicissitudes of Ghana’s constitutional history with regrettable results."
Richard Osei Boateng
General
Fear grips SHS heads as colleagues are interdicted over ‘illegal charges’
The Ghana Education Service (GES) on December 8, 2023, instructed two Senior High School heads to step aside as it initiates investigations into allegations of a breach of their code of conduct.
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Courts
For maliciously prosecuting journalist; Asamoah Gyan to pay over GHC 1 million
This suit was instituted by the journalist Anthony Sarfo after his acquittal and discharge in a charge of extortion leveled against him and three others by Asamoah Gyana and his manager, Anim Addo.
DL News
Europe
UK: Litigant unwittingly put fake cases generated by AI before tribunal
Tax tribunal judge Anne Redston accepted that Felicity Harber had not know they were the product of what is known as ‘hallucination’, where generative AI delivers highly plausible but incorrect results.
Legal Futures
Courts
La Bianca: High Court grants Colonel Damoah's certiorari against OSP's report
The two former Commissioners had hauled the OSP before the court seeking judicial review of the OSP’s report on the La Bianca case, saying that the Special Prosecutor had no jurisdiction when it converted the Labianca Report and published i...
DL News
Courts
62-year-old illegal miner jailed for pouring acid on former girlfriend
Records from the Tarkwa Local Prison, revealed that in 2012, Tandoh was sentenced to 16 years for a similar offence, but was discharged on Amnesty in June 2020 after serving eight years.
GNA
Courts
Court grants businessman bail over alleged GH¢3m fraud
Alhaji Fareed Amin Yakubu, is also said to have issued fake Stanbic and First Atlantic Bank cheques
GNA
Crime
Robbers mistake bread for cash ; Return to kill pregnant woman
The robbers had attacked 42-year-old Raymond Suglo, a businessman, and his wife at Jang in the Nadowli-Kaloe District in the Upper West Region around 9:30 p.m. last Monday.
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Business
Bank fined £5.4m after energy traders used WhatsApp
Regulator Ofgem said the bank breached rules requiring firms to record messages linked to energy trading
BBC
Courts
Freezing of Cecilia Dapaah's bank accounts: Court to rule on OSP's confirmation request August 31
The former Minister is currently being investigated by the OSP on charges of corruption and corruption-related offences
DL News
Courts
23 persons remanded for attacking palace over sale of Kweiman land
They have been charged with conspiracy to commit crimes namely assault and causing damage
GNA
Europe
UK: Solicitor struck off for hiding friendship with convicted money lender
A tribunal found that Malcolm Glynn had been motivated a desire to conceal the relationship he had with a convicted money launderer and had breached his position of trust
Law Society Gazette