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General
“Be curious about what is happening elsewhere” – Justice Aboud tells African Human Rights Court
Lady Justice Imani D. Aboud has urged that the justice system should be interested in events outside its traditional jurisdictions.
DL News7 June 2021
General
Chief Justice refers Dr.Dominic Ayine to General Legal Council
The Chief Justice has petitioned the General Legal Council to investigate the former Deputy Attorney-General over some comments made about him
DL News3 June 2021
Courts
Eight alleged coup plotters pray for variation of bail conditions
Eight persons who are being held over their alleged roles in the destabilisation of the country have filed for bail variation before an Accra High Court.
DL News27 May 2021
Courts
Court throws out motion to move jury to crime scene of murdered MP
An Accra High Court has thrown out a motion praying it to move a seven-member jury to the crime scene of murdered J.B Dankwah Adu, former Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North.
DL News27 May 2021
General
Judge warns Oath Comissioners against operating as lawyers
The Supervising High Court Judge for the Ashanti Region, Justice Kofi Akrowiah, has sworn in 22 Commissioners for Oath with a call on them to operate within the confines of their functions.
DL News24 May 2021
Africa
ICC sentences Ugandan rebel leader Ongwen to 25 years in prison
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday sentenced Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier turned commander of the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, to 25 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
DL News7 May 2021
Business
The role of the judiciary in revenue mobilization
The establishment of a tax court The Chief Justice of Ghana in a letter dated 16th April, 2021 and addressed to the President of the Ghana Bar Association gave notice of the Judiciary’s intention to establish a Tax Court to deal with prosec...
DL News23 April 2021
General
ADR Week commemorated; 2,312 cases settled last year
This year’s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Week was yesterday commemorated in Ada in the Greater Accra Region.
DL News13 April 2021
General
NMC calls for stricter regulation of media following alleged Kasoa ritual murder
George Sarpong, the Executive Secretary of the National Media Commission, has said the discussion surrounding the suspected ritual killing of an 11-year-old boy at Kasoa by two juveniles has reinforced the need for tighter regulation of the...
DL News7 April 2021
US
Supreme Court Hands Google a Landmark Win — and Hollywood a Huge Concern
Google can let out a huge sigh of relief now that the Supreme Court has saved the tech giant from billions of dollars in damages in a long-lasting lawsuit brought by Oracle over computer code used to build the Android operating system.
DL News6 April 2021
US
Judge Orders Lil Nas X Satan Shoes off the Market for Now
MSCHF Product Studio, which has partnered with the rapper, argues the shoes are works of art and consumers aren’t being misled, but a federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order.
DL News2 April 2021
Europe
LEGO wins design patent case against German company at EU court
A European court has ruled in favor of the Danish toy giant, finding that its building block design is protected. Critics say the firm is using its heft to crush competition.
DL News24 March 2021
General
The absence of dissenting opinion among SC judges is troubling – Kofi Abotsi
Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) says he is extremely troubled by the recent practice of Justices of the Supreme Court where they don’t write individual opinions.
DL News6 March 2021
Supreme Court News
I came to support my best friend – Amenuvor explains his presence at Ayine’s contempt hearing
There was drama and light heart moment humour during Thursday’s hearing of the former Attorney General’s contempt case at the Supreme Court.
DL News2 March 2021
General
I’m Fed Up; I Don’t Have Any Interest In Mahama’s Election Petition – Inusah Fuseini Confesses
Former Minister for Roads and Highways in the erstwhile Mahama administration, Inusah Abdulai B. Fuseini says the ongoing 2020 Presidential Election petition at the Supreme Court does not interest him.
DL News23 February 2021
Election Petition
Mahama’s request to inspect EC’s document turned down
The Supreme Court has ruled against a request by the 2020 Presidential Election Petitioner to inspect some documents of the Electoral Commissioner relied upon to declare the 7th December Presidential Elections.
DL News3 February 2021
General
Your ‘colonial horse wigs’ don’t give you the right to tell lecturers to wear suits – Kwaku Azar to SC Judges
Legal luminary and Professor, Stephen Kwaku Asare alias Kwaku Azar has called out Supreme Court justices for requiring that witnesses appearing before it to wear suits, saying that the fact that they(the justices) are stuck to wearing wigs...
DL News3 February 2021
Election Petition
Akoto Ampaw exposed inconsistencies in Mahama’s petition through Asiedu Nketia – Oppong Nkrumah
Akoto Ampaw has been able to expose what he claimed are inconsistencies in the election petition filed by John Mahama, the 2020 presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
DL News1 February 2021
Others
British songwriters who accuse The Weeknd of song-theft take dispute to the Ninth Circuit appeals court
British songwriters Brian Clover and Scott McCulloch have asked the good old Ninth Circuit – everyone’s favourite circuit, surely – to revive their song-theft lawsuit against that notable – although only alleged – song thief The Weeknd. Cal...
DL News30 January 2021
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.
DL News16 January 2021