General
IGP cautions police officers against publicizing internal challenges
The Inspector-General of Police(IGP) James Oppong Boanuh has warned police personnel to desist from going public with challenges they are facing in the service.
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Results for "Ministry Lands and Natural Resources"
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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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Election Petition
Election Petition: Let There Be Peace After SC Ruling – Opanyin Agyekum To Ghanaians
Professor Kofi Agyekum, Dean of the School of Performing Arts at the University of Ghana, has urged Ghanaians not to cause chaos after Supreme Court’s ruling on the election petition filed by former President John Dramani Mahama.
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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
The doctrine of continuous violation: Can it be caught by the doctrine of Estoppel and the statute of limitation?
This paper analyses the circumstances under which estoppel and the statutes of limitation cannot be invoked as shield or even as a sword to override an act or conduct of any person which contravenes the Constitution 1992.
Derick Adu-Gyamf, 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 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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