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Africa
Instigation, insurrection, informality: Eroding the rule of law-Ebrahim Fakir writes
This is a situation Ramaphosa, and South Africa, can ill afford.
DL News16 July 2021
Others
Julia Banks: Ex-Australia MP alleges inappropriate touching by a minister
Ms Banks’ allegations have again highlighted the treatment of women in Mr Morrison’s conservative government and wider Australian politics
DL News6 July 2021
Business
Take steps to identify owners of captured ATM cards within 24 hours-BoG to Financial Institutions
According to the BoG, this directive will “address the perennial complaints that emanate from the capture of Payment Cards at Automated Teller Machines of Regulated Financial Institutions”.
DL News1 July 2021
General
GPGC Scandal: CID petitioned to investigate Boakye Agyarko, Gloria Akufo, Godfred Dame
ASEPA is claiming that the three officials conspired to cancel the agreement while knowing the investments that had been made into the deal
DL News28 June 2021
Crime
Suspected robber shot, arrested for attempting to escape in Kibi
The suspect, Musa Kamara, 26 years of age was on the wanted list of the Police.
DL News25 June 2021
Africa
Côte d’Ivoire: Former PM Soro sentenced to life imprisonment for plotting coup
Guillaume Soro has already been convicted of embezzlement and was sentenced last year to 20 years in prison
DL News23 June 2021
General
Law to reduce backlog of criminal cases in offing
The country’s criminal justice system is set for a massive overhaul, with a law on plea bargaining in the offing.
DL News22 June 2021
General
COVID-19: “Insurance for deceased front-line lab scientist still unpaid” – Med Lab Association
The deceased medical lab scientist died from COVID-19 on Monday 22nd June 2020.
DL News22 June 2021
General
There appears to be selective justice in Ghana – Law student
“It is obvious that our system is plagued with selective justice. Our leaders can flout Covid-19 protocols whiles those who held a religious event were held culpable.”
DL News21 June 2021
Africa
Black Met police chief wins her job back after tribunal says sacking was unfair
Supt Robyn Williams was dismissed in March 2020 after being convicted for possessing a child abuse video that she was sent unsolicited via WhatsApp and never viewed.
DL News21 June 2021
US
Biden signs bill into law making Juneteenth a national holiday
June 19, now Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a US federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States
DL News18 June 2021
Asia
Hong Kong police declare Apple Daily newsroom a crime scene as editors and executives arrested under national security law
Senior superintendent Steve Li, of the police’s national security department, said 18 million Hong Kong dollars ($2.3 million) in assets related to the newspaper had been frozen
DL News17 June 2021
Business
BoG is a constitutional creation: It cannot decline parliamentary investigations
The central bank declined Parliament's invitation, bringing up instead, a response on its mandate and statutory powers to undertake the banking sector clean-up exercise.
DL News15 June 2021
Asia
Deposed Myanmar Leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Trial for Corruption
The 75-year-old Suu Kyi is facing charges of illegally possessing unlicensed walkie-talkies and violating COVID-19 restrictions
DL News14 June 2021
Others
Copa America can go ahead in Brazil, court rules
Judges held an emergency session on Thursday to consider requests to halt the competition because of the coronavirus pandemic
DL News11 June 2021
US
R. Kelly wants to replace half of his legal team two months ahead of trial
Kelly faces multiple federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges, including violations of the Mann Act, which prohibits trafficking people across state lines for prostitution or sexual activity
DL News11 June 2021
General
“Ho 21 LGBT activists haven’t committed any crime,” – CDD-Ghana tells courts
"The occasional use of archaic colonial legal relics like Section 202 of Act 29 by the police to undermine constitutional rights, particularly the right to assemble, exposes the stagnation we continue to experience in efforts to promote and...
DL News11 June 2021
Africa
Copyright protection in the digital age
Year 2020 forced changes in the way we do things in the world, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is still on rampage. Several countries went into series of lockdowns and ordered its citizens to stay at home.
DL News4 May 2021
General
Who is Kissi Agyebeng, the man pencilled in for Special Prosecutor?
Mr Kissi Agyebeng, is a legal practitioner, and Chairman of the Electronic Communications Tribunal, who is expected to be nominated as the next Special Prosecutor (SP), according to Daily Graphic sources.
DL News26 April 2021
US
Former Google Engineer Opens Up: About Her Sexual Harrasment Ordeals At Google
I used to be a Google engineer. That often feels like the defining fact about my life. When I joined the company after college in 2015, it was at the start of a multiyear reign atop Forbes’s list of best workplaces.
DL News21 April 2021