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2020/21 Law Changes Explained- EPL
Here is a simplified version of this year’s key law changes to help prepare clubs, managers, players, referees and spectators for the new season.
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Testing GoldBod CEO’s “New law” on small-scale mining against the law-Prof Kwadwo Appiagyei writes
“Once it’s not a water body; it’s not a forest reserve or… place like a roadside, whether the person has licence or not; the government says we should allow the person to mine and register and regularise them” – CEO, GoldBod
Professor Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua
Africa
Nigeria’s 'Body of Benchers' to cap annual Call to Bar as lawyer numbers exceed 256,000
The body said some law graduates now struggle to establish a practice after admission. It expressed concern about lawyers soliciting clients around magistrates’ courts and police stations, a practice commonly described as “charge-and-bail”...
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GIMPA LLM International Trade and Business Law students visit WTO
The visit formed part of the school’s effort to expose students to the institutions where global trade rules are negotiated, shaped and implemented.
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HBKU College of Law Opens Applications for Professor Role
The appointment may be made at the level of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor, depending on the applicant’s academic qualifications, teaching record, research experience, and professional standing.
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Call for papers for academic work reflecting Tsatsu Tsikata's contribution to Ghanaian Law
For over half a century, Tsatsu Tsikata has operated at the intersection of academia, high-impact litigation, and statecraft. From mentoring generations of legal minds at the University of Ghana to shaping landmark constitutional and human...
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IEC releases application guidelines for 2025 GSL entrance exam
In a notice dated July 15, the committee said the examination will take place on Friday September 12 2025, at 12:00 noon.
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Inside the Ghana School of Law: What Every Aspiring Student Should Know
The school operates from its main campus at Makola and has three additional campuses: GIMPA, UPSA, and Kumasi (at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology—KNUST).
Richard Osei Boateng
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Lebanese Community grants scholarships to 12 University of Ghana law students
This initiative is part of broader efforts to foster educational collaboration between Lebanon and Ghana while supporting academic excellence.
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Africa
South Africa:President signs land seizure law
Despite the end of apartheid over three decades ago, the vast majority of farmland remains in the hands of the white minority, with Black citizens still owning only a small portion.
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A glimpse of 2024: Top news items on DL News
Our top picks for 2024 include the new requirement by the GBA for lawyers to show proof of CLE participation for licence renewal from 2025 onwards and the viral news of the marriage between the 80-year-old former Education Minister and his...
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ICC Chief Prosecutor to deliver lecture at GIMPA
His upcoming trip to Ghana includes a visit to the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Law School.
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GUTA, GIFF raise concern about new Shippers Authority Bill
The President of GUTA, Dr Obeng has thus urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to delay signing the law until those concerns are addressed.
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ALSA launches Sarah F Kpodo Int’l moot court contest
The theme for the event was; ‘Empowering Future Generations of Legal Professionals: The Role of Moot Court Competitions in Shaping the Future of Justice.’
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GSL SRC launches volunteers initiative
The GSL Volunteers will provide opportunities for all law students to use their education and skills to make positive impact in the communities they serve.
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Africa
Nobody will move us over anti-gay law - Museveni
Mr. Museveni insisted the signing of the law was a done deal, defying calls to have it repealed
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Tech
How ChatGPT challenges current intellectual property laws
New AI technologies may infringe on others’ copyrights by being deemed infringing derivatives of a copyrighted source they used to generate their output.
LAW.COM
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Law School exams not dreadful- GSL Director
“The most difficult thing that you’ve been made to understand is that examinations at the Law School are dreadful," he said.
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Europe
University announces 'UK first' law degree to tackle climate crisis
Keele University says its law with environmental sustainability degree has been developed to create legal professionals with a good knowledge of companies’ and governments’ environmental obligations, and the legal mechanisms to hold these b...
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UG School of Law to launch ‘Africa Data Protection Law and Policy Centre’
The Centre, which is expected to be launched officially on Thursday, September 14, 2022, will be a knowledge hub that will receive issues relating to data in the country and beyond, conduct academic research, and contribute effectively to p...
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