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General
Establish legal clinics in Ghanaian law schools – Prof. Frimpong Oppong
Additionally, he asked that regulatory barriers against the establishment and operation of such clinics should be removed.
DL News23 February 2022
Courts
Court orders prosecution to file witness statements in Imam defilement case
The court also asked the prosecution to file and serve the accused and his lawyer with the witness statements.
GNA2 February 2022
Courts
Injuct Assin North MP –NPP to Supreme Court
The Supreme Court could however not hear the application when the case was called on Tuesday, February 1, 2022, due to failure to serve the writ and processes on the defendant.
DL News1 February 2022
US
US black man mistaken for older white suspect – lawsuit
Shane Lee Brown, 25, was arrested in January 2020 in a traffic stop after he failed to show his licence. Las Vegas police found a warrant in his name. But that warrant was actually for Shane Neal Brown, a middle-aged white man with a beard,...
BBC25 January 2022
General
Marriage by proxy legitimate under Ghana’s Customary Law – legal practitioner
A private legal practitioner, Susanna Asaabea Nyampong, says marriage by proxy is legitimate under Ghana's Customary Law but has its limitations.
MYJOYONLINE17 January 2022
Crime
Police retrieve narcotics from student who displayed gun on social media
Police laid surveillance on the suspect and established that he was peddling narcotic drugs.
STARRFM6 January 2022
US
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes convicted of fraud
Prosecutors said Holmes knowingly lied about technology she said could detect diseases with a few drops of blood.
BBC4 January 2022
General
Future of Legal Education: Students should stop bribing teachers for questions- Ansa- Asare
In a remark as a Chairman of a Panel at the just ended INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE FUTURE OF LEGAL EDUCATION IN GHANA/AFRICA by the University of Ghana School of Law, he intimated the need for the solidarity of teachers and students of...
DENNISLAW NEWS6 December 2021
General
Ashanti Regional NPP office rent fracas: Chairman Wontumi disagrees with the landlady
Last Friday, the landlady stormed the premises and demanded the Party to move out and hand over her building.
DL News22 November 2021
General
Amend the Law on the minimum age of sexual consent – Coordinator
“The law is to protect children,”
DL News22 November 2021
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
Courts
Headteacher in court for allegedly defiling 15 year old pupil
on September 17, this year, the complainant reported the incident to the Domestic Violence and Victim’s Support Unit of the Ghana Police Service at Dansoman and Agyekum was arrested.
DL News9 November 2021
General
We are fleshing out Standing Orders on parliamentary privileges and immunities – Dr. Ayine
While legal experts have stated that the police are not bound to seek the permission of the Speaker before effecting the arrest of an MP, some MP’s and even the Speaker of Parliament have justified the need for parliamentary immunity.
DL News5 November 2021
General
They are jokers-Sam Okudzeto describes Dafeamekpor, Sosu for seeking CJ’s removal from the GLC
So I don’t see how the qualified lawyer is going to appear before the court and you say that those for who we are going to appear before do not have any power of control over their training, or education. It’s a joke.
DL News3 November 2021
General
Ghana affirms commitment towards implementation of African Court’s decision
The African Court shall not receive any petition under article 5(3) involving a State which has not made such a declaration.”
DL News3 November 2021
General
‘It is wrong to resist arrest even if you have not committed a crime’ – Legal Practitioner
In a letter dated October 28, addressed to the Deputy-Director General of Criminal Investigation Division, F.K. Agyei, Parliament indicated that due to limitations of Articles 117 and 118 of the 1992 Constitution, Mr Sosu cannot be released...
DL News1 November 2021
Business
Ayariga urges Parliament to fast-track probe into collapse of UT bank, uniBank
Mahama Ayariga wants the House to be furnished with an update on the matter and urged the committee to resume work on the petition in earnest.
DL News1 November 2021
Courts
Doctoring, distributing nude pictures: Court to decide on beautician’s appeal
Chantel Nunekpeku, the beautician, filed an appeal at the High Court to challenge the ruling of the Circuit Court that handed her the 12-month prison term in 2018.
DL News1 November 2021
Crime
Don’t give money to police officers on the streets – ACP Kwesi Ofori tells public
ACP Kwesi Ofori, interacting with host of Newsfile, Samson Lardy Anyenini, stated that the current administration headed by Inspector General of Police (IGP), George Akuffo Dampare is keen to ensure corrupt practices in the country are quas...
Joy Online30 October 2021
Crime
German court sentences ISIL member to 10 years in prison
Monday’s conviction of Jennifer Wenisch, 30, by Munich’s Higher Regional Court marked one of the first court rulings anywhere in the world on ISIL’s persecution of the Yazidi community.
ALJAZEERA NEWS26 October 2021