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The man represented many things – from being a legislator to a judge, serving as Chairman of various Commissions of Inquiry, and then an intellectual who was one of the founding members of the Ghana Academy of Arts & Sciences.
DL News
Africa
Burkina Faso abolished the death penalty in 2018. For the new bill to take effect, it must still be passed by parliament and reviewed by the courts.
DL News
Africa
The charges stem from allegations that Kabila secretly supported the M23 rebel group, blamed for mass killings, torture, sexual violence, and the takeover of vast areas in eastern DRC.
DL News
Africa
Justice Minister Joseph Geng Akech announced on Thursday that the charges stem from a March assault on an army base in Nasir, carried out by the White Army militia—a group largely made up of fighters from Machar’s Nuer ethnic group.
DL News
Courts
Speaking before Parliament’s Appointments Committee on Monday, June 16, Justice Adjei criticized the current legal framework, saying it violates the right to life and contradicts Ghana’s international human rights obligations.
DL News
Courts
In a supplementary affidavit filed at the Supreme Court on Monday, May 26, Justice Torkornoo detailed what she called a “systematic and deliberate miscarriage of justice,” asserting that the process she is being subjected to is more degradi...
DL News
Courts
Oliver was arrested on February 11, 2022, at the Kotoka International Airport upon his return to Ghana from the United Kingdom.
DL News
Courts
The individuals in question had been arrested during a demonstration and later granted bail, with the exception of Barker-Vormawor, who remained in custody due to separate treason felony charges.
DL News
Africa
The charges come after gunmen recently attacked a barracks and prison in the capital Freetown. Numerous others are also facing similar charges over the incident.
DW
Courts
The jurors suspended their services last week citing the delay in the payment of their allowances.
DL News
Courts
On Monday, when the court sat, the accused persons pleaded for more time to file their disclosures after failing to comply with an order made by the court six months ago.
DL News
General
Ghana’s ability to do so will put it in the over one hundred and twenty(120 countries globally that have rejected the death penalty.
DL News
Africa
Mr Kanu is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), a group that wants a breakaway state in south-east Nigeria where mainly Igbo people live, and which has been outlawed by the government.
BBC
Courts
The court presided over by Her Honour Eleanor Barnes noted that it did not have the jurisdiction to grant bail to the accused per the nature of the offense thus remanded him to police custody.
DL News
Courts
Though I am a postgraduate law student at the University of Cambridge, England, I have no fixed place of abode any place outside of Ghana.
DL News
Courts
On that day, whether accused persons file written submissions or not, the Court would give its judgment.
GNA
Courts
"In order for the court to have a first-hand information of the trial and the demeanor of witnesses, the court will start the trial 'De Novo," the judge said.
DL News
Courts
The applicant's counsel is expecting in court on Monday, March 14, 2022, to move the motion for bail pending trial.
DL News
Courts
This was after the applicant’s legal team led by Akoto Ampaw requested for a short adjournment to study the AG’s affidavit in opposition.
DL News
Africa
The order followed a complaint by his lawyers, during a pre-trial hearing today, that their client was not allowed to change clothes or even practise his religion.
BBC
