General
Lawyer chases compensation for persons affected by demolition at Abuja CMB
A lawyer representing some squatters at Abuja CMB in Accra has vowed to seek legal redress over the demolition of structures belonging to his clients.
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General
Chief Imam’s spokesperson commends Akufo-Addo for stance on same-sex marriage
The spokesperson of the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Aremeyaw Shaibu has commended President Akufo-Addo for his commitment not to legalise same-sex marriage.
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General
Agyapa deal: Martin Amidu was wrong – Samson Lardy Anyenini
Samson Lardy Anyenini, a private legal practitioner has told Good Evening Ghana in a report monitored by GhanaWeb that the former Special Prosecutor, Martin ABK Amidu, was wrong on some of the positions taken on the Agyapa Royalties Agreeme...
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General
I didn’t work to disenfranchise Hohoe residents – Godfred Dame
Attorney General and Justice Minister-designate, Godfred Yeboah Dame has distanced himself from the inability of some voters in Hohoe in the Volta Region to partake in the 2020 general elections.
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General
Full List: 65% of new lawyers called to the Gambian Bar are Ghanaians
65 per cent of lawyers called to the Gambia Bar in 2021 are Ghanaian law students who left Ghana and opted to study law in the West African Country.
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General
GBA wants claims of some lawyers in Ashanti Region taking their clients’ wives investigated
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) is calling for a probe into claims that some lawyers in the Ashanti Region are taking their clients’ wives from them.
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Election Petition
Election petition: Asiedu Nketia’s allegations are unduly scandalous – Akoto Ampaw
The Lead Counsel of President Akufo-Addo in the election petition, Akoto Ampaw has described as scandalous the witness statement of the 2020 Presidential Candidate of the NDC, John Dramani Mahama.
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Election Petition
Election Petition: It’s not necessary for John Mahama to testify – Ayine
Dr. Dominic Ayine, a spokesperson for former President John Mahama in the Election Petition case says his client cannot be compelled to personally be in the witness box to be cross-examined.
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Election Petition
Election petition: NDC’s claim that Supreme Court panel is unfair bogus – Kojo Oppong Nkrumah
A member of President Akufo-Addo’s legal team, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has described as ‘bogus’, a claim by John Mahama’s legal team that the Supreme Court panel hearing the 2020 election petition is unfair and unbalanced.
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Opinion
Why you must conduct a litigation search before buying a land in Ghana
It is widely accepted among land purchasers in Ghana that, there is a need to go an extra mile in due diligence before paying money to any person or entity who purports to own a land in Ghana primarily due to the dicey nature of our land ac...
Victor Owusu Asante Esq
Opinion
Summary Judgments in Land Litigation; A ‘Quickie’ Path to Obtain Judgments? To Move or Not To Move, The Quagmire of the Practitioner?
The burden of the author in this article is to review the law on Summary Judgment, discuss the two opposing views of whether same can be granted in land matters or not, attempt to fill the vacuum and draw a conclusion that a party may not b...
Frederick Gurah Sampson
Opinion
International Trade Relations After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Africa Rising?
The author considers the definitive question of what COVID-19 will really do to international trade in Africa with recent advancements in establishing the AfCFTA secretariat
Alex Ansong
Opinion
The Right to liberty and Freedom of movement in the shackles of Administrative Acts in Covid-19 Ghana; The legal implications in Ghana’s constitutional jurisprudence
The authors discuss how the COVID-19 and its associated restrictions have impacted some basic freedoms such as movement and liberty.
Frederick Agaaya Adongo and Martin Waana-Ang
Opinion
The Unambiguous Constitutional Answers to the Question of Citizenship by Birth
The author raises critical questions on the question of citizenship by birth and the ambiguous position of identification by a birth certificate
Richard Nunekpeku
Opinion
Judgment & Pleadings of Previous Suits in Res Judicata: To Tender or Not to Tender?
The paper interrogates the two positions and the recent attempt by the Apex Court to reconcile them. Was the Court able to rectify the ‘corrupted version’ of the estoppel per rem judicatam rule or just like Abedi Ayew, it is too late in the...
Justice Alexander Osei Tutu
Opinion
21st Century Restatement of the principle in Kponuglo v. Kodadja
The writer lays more emphasis on how the Kodadja principle has gone under the knife on a couple of occasions especially in this century at the blind side of its numerous admirers
Justice Alexander Osei Tutu
Opinion
Creditors’ right to the payment of debt and the Limited Liability feature of a company limited by shares
The author discusses the concept of limited liability and the creditors’ right to payment and offers some recommendations on creditors’ due diligence as a means of averting the ultimate termination of the right to the payment due to the ben...
Richard Nunekpeku
Crime
Six NIA staff arrested, seven dismissed over alleged Ghana card registration extortion
The incident occurred at the Galaka registration centre, where parents reportedly identified the six staff members as individuals who demanded payments before registering their children.
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Courts
Tarkwa labourer fined GH¢120,000 over cannabis, tramadol possession
The convict, who resides at Tarkwa Railway Station in the Western Region, faces a three-year prison term if he fails to pay the fine imposed by the court.
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Crime
Police arrest driver at Lapaz over 70 suspected unregistered Tapentadol tablets
Yakubu, who resides at Lapaz in Accra, is facing a charge of offering unregistered drugs for sale following his arrest during a police operation targeting suspected illegal drug activities in the area.
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