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Full Speech by President Akufo Addo at the 2023 Ghana Bar Conference
The 2023 Ghana Bar Conference is on the theme: Ensuring High Standard and Integrity in Public Life: The Role of Legal Profession
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CJ calls for cross-sectoral legal framework to drive blue economy
Chief Justice Torkornoo was speaking at the 14th Maritime Law Seminar for Judges of the Superior Courts Ghana
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Your research findings are heavily challenged – IGP responds to CHRAJ, GSS, UNODC survey
"From the foregoing, it is our considered view that the research and its findings are heavily challenged and corrupted from both the academics and practice point of view."
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On World Refugee Day: Whoever, Wherever, Whenever they may be
According to the UNHCR, over 100 million people are now forcibly displaced around the world in light of the war in Ukraine, which is the fastest displacement crisis in recent times.
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Crime
Ghana’s exposure to violent extremism: Report finds chieftaincy disputes, others amplify risks
Ghana’s exposure to violent extremism: Report finds chieftaincy disputes, others amplify risks
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Business
Crime in books than in Practice: Black Market Foreign Exchange Businesses in Focus
The operators, who are mostly African foreign Nationals, like Nigerians, Nigeriens, Malians, and the likes however give better rates than the official Forex bureaus in the exchange of currencies.
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Commission study on access to justice – Prof. Oppong to GBA, GLC, Attorney-General
Professor Richard Frimpong Oppong, a law professor at the Califonia Western School of Law and a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, said the study should examine the use of digital technology to enhance access to justice.
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Business
Ghana card to be sole ID for all financial transactions-BoG
In a notice signed by the Secretary to the Central Bank, Ms. Sandra Thompson, entreated all financial institutions to take steps to update customer records with the Ghana Card in line with Section 30 of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2020 (...
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Africa
Ghana dragged to ECOWAS court over alleged human rights violations of boys
They beat the boys with sticks, a pestle, a metal rod, a vehicle fan-belt and a cutlass.
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Law students demonstrate against refusal of admissions to law school
The group accused the General Legal Council of poorly handling legal education in the country, following the increasing fail rates of students who sit for the entrance exam every year
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Coalition of Human Rights finds Ghana’s LGBTQ+ Bill at odds with international agreements
They also noted that the continuance of the Bill may set grounds for increased violence and targeted attacks on people perceived to be LGBTQ+.
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Ghost Schools allegation: GSFP Management responds
“for the first time in the history of school feeding programme, the management was able to make savings of over 27 million Ghana cedis from non-cooking days in the 1st term of this 2021 academic year and the money duly declared to the appro...
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US
Extradited Ghanaian national sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison for multimillion-dollar money laundering conspiracy
The prosecution of this case is being handled by the Office’s Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit. Assistant United States Attorneys Sagar K. Ravi and Mitzi Steiner are in charge of the prosecution.
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Opinion
Beyond ‘Penile Penetration’: Assessing Ghana’s Antiquated Definition of ‘Rape’ Through the Lens of the Rome Statute of the ICC; An Urgent Call For A Comprehensive Sexual Offences Act to Modernize Sexual Offences in Ghana.
This article critiques Ghana’s narrow, outdated legal definition of rape, restricted to penile vaginal penetration, and advocates for reform aligned with the Rome Statute’s broader, consent-focused standard. Drawing on comparative law and i...
Sedinam Awo Kwadam
Opinion
The departure which must itself be departed from-Comment on the Supreme Court Decision of GHANA TELECOMMUNICATIONS CO. LTD & ANOR v ATTA VI.
This writer submits that the Ogyeadom case could never, as perceived by the Court, have settled the question whether or not the Court is jurisdictionally competent to entertain and grant an application for stay of execution pending the dete...
Thaddeus Sory
Business
The Ghanaian team that secured the over $393 million tax arbitration victory against Tullow
Alongside the Attorney-General and his deputy, the Ghanaian team included Solicitor-General Helen Akpene Awo Ziwu and state attorneys Anna Pearl Akiwumi Siriboe, Grace Oppong Dolphy and Adwoa Obenewah Amoah. The Ghana Revenue Authority also...
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Business
Societe Generale to exit Ghana as it agrees to sell its subsidiary to Attijariwafa
Attijariwafa will buy 55.22 per cent, while the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) will acquire an additional 5 per cent. Together, the purchases account for Societe Generale Group’s full 60.22 per cent interest.
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Ghana to strengthen sea security with passage of Maritime Offences Bill
Its passage comes at a time when the Gulf of Guinea continues to face security threats that affect shipping, trade, seafarers and coastal economies.
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Real Estate Agency to crackdown on unlicensed agents, brokers
The warning was given by Jacob Adofo-Ansong, President of the Ghana Association of Real Estate Brokers and a board member of the Council, during a stakeholder engagement with the Bank of Ghana in Accra.
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The Unaffordability of Accra: The Housing Dilemma, Unresolved Realities and the Rent Question
Ghana’s rental crisis is not cultural; it is structural. Advance rent thrives because public housing has disappeared, supply is scarce, and private landlords face little competitive pressure. A fair housing future requires government-backed...
Kojo Tabiri, Esq. and Eddy Acquah