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Crime
Govt entreated to support poor, vulnerable facing prosecutions
Vagrancy laws criminalise the status of the poor and homeless, and not necessarily what they have done. These include loitering and hawking,”
DL News30 August 2021
General
Every organisation should formulate harassment policy – Kezia Azumah
According to the Priest, his actions were to add ‘a human touch’ to a short appreciation ceremony organised for the students who would be going for their Macro Teaching (Off-Campus Teaching Practice) when College resumed the next academic y...
DL News23 August 2021
General
Priest kissing students: Anglican Church showed leadership – Director of FIDA-International
In a statement sighted by JoyNews, Father Baltharzzar Obeng Larbi acknowledged wrongdoing by his action and rendered an apology to the girls involved, their families, the Anglican church, and the general public at large.
DL News23 August 2021
General
Anglican priest’s ‘holy’ kiss video: It’s time for women, girls sexually harassed in churches to come out-FIDA Ghana
“Needless to say, sexual harassment is gender-based violence and a violation of the human rights of girls and women and is prohibited in the 1992 Constitution, the Domestic Violence Act and the Labour Act.
DL News18 August 2021
Courts
Would you let a robot lawyer defend you?
Prof Susskind says in the 1980s he was genuinely horrified by the idea of a computer judge, but that he isn’t now.
DL News16 August 2021
General
Amend law to empower Spatial Planning Authority – Dr. Kwaku Afriyie advocates
“I believe that this Ramsar site, which may even superintend several administrative domain boundaries, must be ceded to the authority under the law
DL News16 August 2021
Courts
Human rights advocate sues police, 1 other for malicious prosecution, demands ¢20m for damages
Mr Annan in the run-up to the 2020 presidential and parliamentary election was accused by one Benjamin Ackah of transferring an amount of GHc100,000 from his bank account into a bank account belonging to him without his permission.
DL News9 August 2021
General
Landlords liable to 2-year jail term for charging beyond 6 months rent advance.
A section of Ghanaians, particularly the youth have raised concern about housing deficit in the country and called on the government to convert the Saglemi Affordable Housing project to a social housing project for rental accommodation for...
DL News4 July 2021
General
Police must be protectors of rights rather than ‘crime fighters’ – Criminologist
"The inherited description of the police as ‘crime fighters’ puts them in the defensive mode where they see people protesting for their human rights as enemies that must be put down by force."
DL News1 July 2021
General
Parliament will pass strict laws against LGBT – Speaker Bagbin
The Speaker was responding to a petition presented by one Emmanuel Abankwah Kesse, a political activist in the Eastern Region
DL News23 June 2021
Europe
Spanish man jailed for killing and eating his mother
A Spanish man has been jailed for 15 years and five months for killing and eating his mother at the apartment they shared in Madrid.
DL News16 June 2021
Courts
Court to give judgment on Achimota-Rasta students’ case today
The Human Rights Division of the High Court is today, Monday, May 31, 2021, expected to give judgment in the case of two Rastafarian boys who were denied admission into Achimota School based on their dreadlocks.
DL News31 May 2021
Courts
Rastafarian Saga: Applicant not a student of Achimota School – AG
Mr Godfred Yeboah Dame, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, has challenged the action of Tyron Iras Marghuy, one of the Rastafarian Students, who was allegedly denied admission by the Achimota School.
DL News17 May 2021
Courts
Achimota School fails to respond to Rasta student’s suit; case adjourned to April 30
The Human Rights Court 1 Division of the High Court has adjourned to April 30, the case involving one of the Rastafarian boys, Oheneba Nkrabea, who was denied admission to Achimota School over his dreadlocks.
DL News22 April 2021
Courts
Rastafarian student’s injunction against Achimota school dismissed
The Human Rights Division of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice Gifty Agyei Addo has dismissed an ex-parte injunction application from one of the Rastafarian students who was denied admission by the Achimota Senior High School.
DL News12 April 2021
US
Nike Sues MSCHF Over Lil Nas X Satan Shoes
Lil Nas X’s limited edition satanic-themed Air Max 97 shoes — the ones that cost more than a grand, sold out in under a minute and may contain actual human blood — weren’t authorized by Nike, according to a suit filed Monday in New York fed...
DL News30 March 2021
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.
DL News27 February 2021
Election Petition
2020 Election Petition not novel
Lest we forget, the 2020 Election Petition is not novel. It appears to be a rehashed of the 2012 Election Petition. Aside the swapping of roles, the key issue and actors remain the same: Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Electoral Commission and...
DL News18 January 2021
Africa
Sternford Moyo Breaks Record, Becomes First African To Emerge As New IBA President
The Chairman and Senior Partner of law firm Scanlen and Holderness, Sternford Moyo, has been announced as the new President of the International Bar Association (IBA).
DL News14 January 2021
Opinion
Revisiting the Right to Counsel in Light of the Introduction of Plea Bargaining in Ghana
This paper seeks to discuss the general right to counsel, its current application in Ghana, and how the right is central to the effective administration of plea bargaining.
E. K. Bidzakin11 October 2022