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"Illegal" arrest warrant over woman in child custody case revoked by court
During the Tuesday, February 4, 2025, court session, Ms. Baaba Sam’s legal team argued that the warrant lacked merit and should be nullified.
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Court gives accused more time to fill defence in Sky Train case
The Accra High Court, presided over by Justice Audrey Kocuvie-Tay, has directed Solomon Asamoah, former Chief Executive Officer of GIIF, and Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, former Board Chairman of the fund, to file their witness state...
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Opinion
IGP’s affront to the British High Commissioner: Why it is wrong?
An agent of government and for that matter, a State security agent or the Police Service of a State is not a party to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18 April 1961, which universally governs diplomatic relations among Sate-...
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Ato Essien seeks changes to appeal against 15-year jail term
The application, filed on October 5, 2026, seeks to revise some of the grounds upon which the former banking executive is challenging his conviction and sentence.
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Post criminal summons at residence of Assin-North MP – High Court orders
Prosecutors say several efforts to serve the MP with the summons, have failed and they rather asked the court to issue a bench warrant for his arrest.
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Maxwell Opoku Agyemang not qualified for recommendation, nomination as Justice of Court of Appeal: A-Plus, Brogya Genfi to SC
The plaintiffs aver in their suits that Mr. Maxwell Opoku Agyemang, who is a senior lecturer at the Ghana School of Law, per findings made against him, renders him unqualified to be appointed as a Justice of the Court of Appeal
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Supreme Court News
As CJ Anin Yeboah retires; Some Cases in which he gave lead judgment
He will be remembered for his passionate role in ensuring and elevating the Independence of the Judiciary and his outstanding contribution to enhancing access to Justice delivery
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Wife entitled to property settlement despite void marriage- SC tells Cameroonian-born, Canadian man
The apex court noted that having contributed to the acquisition of the properties, it is only fair and just that the respondent be given a share and consequently endorsed the decision of the High Court, which decision was affirmed by the Co...
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General
Court issues bench warrant for Jomoro MP’s arrest
The MP subsequently filed a motion for stay of execution pending appeal at the Court of Appeal but was unanimously dismissed on July 26, 2021.
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Africa
Kenya has its first female chief justice: Martha Koome
If parliament formally approves the nomination of Justice Martha Koome as the next Chief Justice of Kenya and president of the Supreme Court, as is widely expected, she will become the first woman to occupy the seat in Kenya’s history. Just...
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GH¢5M defamation case: Supreme Court slaps GHC10k cost on Lil Win, strikes out his application
The fine was imposed after the actor and his lawyers failed to appear when the matter was called on Tuesday, 31 March 2026, despite the case being scheduled for hearing at the apex court.
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General
Upper East Region: New district courts open in Zuarungu and Pusiga
The new courts would serve as “a beacon of hope," Chief Justice Torkornoo said in a speech read on her behalf.
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Business
BoG's revocation of UniCredit license was proper-Supreme Court
This judgment by the apex court thus affirms an earlier one by the High Court which cleared the Central Bank of any wrongdoing in the action.
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Company directors before court for alleged tax evasion
Mansell Limited, which deals in the importation and wholesale of rice, sugar and other products, and the directors are facing trial at the Tax Division of the Accra High Court on two counts of failing to pay tax, contrary to Section 80 of t...
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Ogyeedom vs Afrifa: Akoto Ampaw vows to defend his name
Lawyer Afrifa must have his own diabolical reasons for trying to implicate me in this crazy judicial bribery scandal, which manifestly does not add up.
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First wife’s request to own half of husband’s property rejected by court
"To award her 50% of the Respondent’s property when he currently has two other wives and other children is, in our view, inequitable and a slavish application of the old principle in Mensah v Mensah," the court held.
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Supreme Court News
'File your response within 10 days' - SC to James Quayson on application against High Court
The High Court had on July 20, 2022, adjourned the criminal proceedings involving the injuncted Assin-North MP, James pending the outcome of an application at the Supreme Court.
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Assin North MP charged on 5 counts of forgery, perjury
The charge sheet filed at the High Court states that the MP obtained a public office as an MP by using a declaration knowingly that he did not owe allegiance to any other country but Ghana.
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Supreme Court's power of injuncting MP’s , candidates not new-AG
“ It must be established clearly that the Supreme Court has always exercised its power of injunction in constitutional matters.”
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Conduct speedy trial of rape case-ECOWAS court to Nigeria
The applicant, a Nigerian woman filed a suit at the court against Peter Okoro for raping her somewhere in 2011 in Lagos.
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