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Africa
ECOWAS Court of Justice to launch electronic case management system
Currently cases are filed before the court through written applications addressed to the Registry in Abuja, Nigeria
DL News20 October 2021
General
To assent or not to assent, the anti-LGBTQI+ Bill
The question finds its voice in the famous phrase of Hamlet: ‘TO BE OR NOT TO BE, AND THAT IS THE QUESTION. This time, it is: ‘TO ASSENT OR NOT TO ASSENT’.
DL News18 October 2021
Africa
California bans non-consensual condom removal during sex
The bill was supported by the Erotic Service Providers Legal, Educational and Research Project (ESPLERP), an advocacy organisation founded and run by Doogan.
DL News11 October 2021
General
Ejura Committee Recommendation: Mere transfer of Police Commander not enough-NDC
On the part of DSP Philip Kojo Hammond, the Committee notes that he incompetently handled the Ejura situation, and his relationship with the Ejura community has been damaged beyond repair.
DL News6 October 2021
US
Estate of Henrietta Lacks sues biotechnical company for nonconsensual use of her cells
Johns Hopkins Medicine, in a statement to CNN, said that what happened to Lacks in 1951 “would not happen today.”
DL News5 October 2021
General
Exposition of the current position of the law on corruption, anti-money laundering and narcotics
The law is settled that no person shall be convicted of a criminal offence unless the offence is defined and its penalty is prescribed in a written law[37].
DL News1 October 2021
Europe
French CEO sent to prison after his policies resulted in the suicides of 35 employees
The trial shows that managers waging a campaign of harassment against employees could establish a a precedent in France and other countries.
DL News30 September 2021
Crime
Remove Ejura MCE, transfer DSP Kojo Hammond-Ejura Committee Report
It notes that the MCE, Mohammed Salisu’s presence is likely to worsen the already tense security situation at Ejura.
DL News28 September 2021
US
Linda Evangelista files $50M lawsuit over disfiguring cosmetic treatment
PAH has not only destroyed my livelihood, it has sent me into a cycle of deep depression, profound sadness, and the lowest depths of self-loathing. In the process, I have become a recluse,
DL News24 September 2021
Courts
CEO of popular Ghanaian TV station sentenced for assaulting, battering wife
The Court presided over by Her Honor Hellen Lordina Serwaa Mireku convicted the accused person on his plea after changing from not guilty to guilty.
DL News22 September 2021
General
Having the title and name of every Chief Justice on every writ of summons is unconstitutional-Lawyer files action in the Supreme Court
According to the plaintiff, both the letter and spirit of the 1992 constitution of Ghana are breached by the continuing practice which undermines the sovereignty of Ghana because it seems to suggest that sovereignty rather emanates from the...
DL News17 September 2021
General
CID petitioned to probe PNC’s Apasera, Dani Baah over alleged financial malfeasance
The meeting comprised 9 Regional Chairmen and the First Vice-Chair of the PNC.
DL News15 September 2021
US
Mexico decriminalizes abortion in landmark ruling
The 11 Supreme Court judges unanimously voted to decriminalise abortion in that state, and under Mexican law, it will now apply to all the other states in the country.
DL News9 September 2021
General
1992 Constitution should be reviewed, not scrapped – GBA President
Anthony Forson believes the constitution was meant to hold the country together, and it has done just that.
DL News9 September 2021
US
Senate Judiciary Committee to hold hearing on Supreme Court’s abortion ruling and ‘shadow docket’
The Supreme Court must operate with the highest regard for judicial integrity in order to earn the public’s trust,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said in a statement
DL News4 September 2021
General
Don’t Speak Twi In The Dock – CID Boss
The overall best detective was Constable Perpetual Deny of Adweso CID, Koforidua.
DL News1 September 2021
Business
13 containers of rosewood seized at Tema Port
In July, 2019, the EIA published a groundbreaking report titled, ‘BAN-BOOZLED: How Corruption and Collusion Fuel Illegal Rosewood Trade in Ghana’.
DL News30 August 2021
Africa
Nigeria: Tribunal orders Multichoice to pay N900 billion tax backlog
Prof. A.B. Ahmed, issued an order for Multichoice to make the N900 billion tax backlog payment, following an application to it by the counsel to FIRS.
DL News27 August 2021
Courts
Accra High Court orders reinstatement of GWCL’s David Yankson and Dora Bonnah
In March 2015, the plaintiffs filed a writ seeking an order of the court to set aside the wrongful and unjustified disciplinary actions taken against them by the company(GWCL).
DL News19 August 2021
Courts
Ho Court acquits and discharges 21 suspected LGBTQI advocates over lack of evidence
all 21 persons denied being gays and lesbians
DL News10 August 2021