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Access to information to be extended to private institutions— RTI Commission
Under the Right to Information Act, 2019 (Act 989), people’s right to access information is limited to public institutions.
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Data Protection Commission to take legal action against defaulters
According to the Commission the data controllers failed to comply with section 46 (3) of the Data Protection Act, 2021, (Act 843), which mandates them to register with the Commission.
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Occupy Ghana petitions RTI Commission for info on relinquished public lands
The group also wants to know the respective sizes and locations of all such lands.
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Implement Act 767 to decentralize Lands Commission-Kwame Gyan
“If someone buys land at Ada or Dodowa, he or she has to come to 37 to get them registered. Similarly, if one buys just a plot of Land at Afram Plains, he has to send it to Koforidua,
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Europe
ICJ rules Israel must facilitate UN humanitarian aid delivery to Gaza
The Court concluded that Israel had not provided sufficient evidence to substantiate its long-standing claims that the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) lacks neutrality
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GBA 2024 National Election: Who wins what?
The office of the President is being contended by Mr. Agbesi Dzakpasu and Madam Efua Ghartey while Mr Ebenezer Kwaitoo is battling it out with Miss Victoria Barth for Vice President.
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The principle of quicquid plantatur solo, solo cedit
This article argues that the maxim quicquid plantatur solo, solo cedit has increasingly been relied upon by litigants as a shield to establish claims of possession through physical acts upon land, thereby exposing potential purchasers who f...
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Ghana declared ineligible for U.S. aid under MCC for 2026 fiscal year
This restriction stems from the debt default clause outlined in section 7012 of the Fiscal Year 2025 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act (SFOAA), which remains in effect until a debt restructuring agreement is...
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Non-passage of Property Rights of Spouses Bill whittling away gains from Mensah v Mensah - Justice Dotse
Article 22 (3) requires spouses to have equal access to property jointly acquired during the marriage and for matrimonial property to be equitably distributed between the spouses upon the termination of the marriage.
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Full Speech by The Attorney-General of Ghana at the 2023 Ghana Bar Conference
When I look back at certain cases whose outcomes I consider undesirable, regardless of my own views on the questions being judged in them, I come to the conclusion that, we have in this country a fiercely independent Judiciary in which all...
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17 American, Canadian missionaries kidnapped by gang members in Haiti
CNN has reached out to the Haitian Justice Ministry and the National Police but they have not yet commented.
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2022:CHRAJ to extend operations to 30 more Districts-Commissioner
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) will this year expand its operations to 30 more districts in a move to provide its services for a greater number of the people, especially the vulnerable.
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Lands Commission to consolidate land search reports
the Commission is notifying the General Public that all applications for searches should be submitted online through http//onlineservices.lc.gov.gh.
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Legal Education: Post-colonial structures cannot serve our needs today-President Akufo-Addo
The four-day conference organized by the University of Ghana Faculty of Law on the theme; The Future of Legal Education also saw the Launch of the University of Ghana School of Law Endowment Fund.
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CJ role too powerful, vulnerable to abuse-Prof Prempeh calls for reform
Speaking at a Learning and Exchange event organized by the African Judicial Independence Fund (AJIF), Prof. Prempeh described Ghana’s judicial structure as overly centralized, with the Chief Justice holding unchecked authority over both the...
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Election Petition: Tsatsu Tsikata to cross-examine Jean Mensa
The Election Petition has reached its height of seeing Jean Mensa, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, in the dock to be cross-examined by the counsel for Petitioner John Dramani Mahama.
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Ex-United Nations employee sentenced for multiple rapes
The sentencing of a former United Nations communications specialist was punctuated by the tears and eloquence of some of his 13 sexual assault victims who said being drugged and raped by a man who had befriended them left them shattered.
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Ayine pushes Welfare Fund for lawyers
The proposal was announced in a speech delivered on his behalf by Deputy Attorney-General Dr Justice Srem-Sai at the Ghana Bar Association’s 2026/27 conference in Ada on September 14.
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Know the current LLb-awarding institutions in Ghana: Their history and locations
From the University of Ghana, which pioneered university-based legal education in the country, to relatively new law faculties established in different parts of Ghana, prospective law students now have a wider range of institutions to consi...
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251 defaulting institutions to be prosecuted in 2 weeks if - Data Protection Commission
Institutions that collect and process personal data are mandated by Section 46 of the Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843) to register with the commission.
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