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Courts
Aisha Huang, three others denied bail
The four who appeared before the court on September 14, 2022, pleaded not guilty to charges of mining without a license and engaging in the sale and purchase of minerals without a valid license.
DL News14 September 2022
Africa
Zimbabwe: New marriage law give 'girlfriends' inheritance rights
Unlike in the past, the new law recognizes civil partnerships, which are not marriages but are recognized only for property sharing.
AllAfrica12 September 2022
Others
Full Speech: Godfred Yeboah Dame at 39th International Symposium on economic crime
The Office of the Attorney-General is prosecuting other high-profile cases involving the offenses of wilfully causing financial loss to the State, stealing, corruption, fraud, procurement breaches, and money laundering.
Godfred Yeboah Dame, AG6 September 2022
Africa
Martha Koome - from women's right campaigner to Supreme Court chief justice
The 62-year-old was appointed chief justice in May last year by outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta after she came top of 10 candidates interviewed in front of a live television audience by Kenya's Judicial Service Commission (JSC).
BBC6 September 2022
General
Dockets almost ready for prosecution of NAM 1, says AG Dame
"I am happy to state that after painstaking investigations, dockets on that financial crime are almost ready for prosecution to commence in earnest,”
DL News5 September 2022
General
Meet Dr. Kwaku Agyeman-Budu: New GIMPA Law Dean
His appointment at the youngest age of 37, makes him the fifth academic to be appointed to the office of Dean by the Governing Council of GIMPA.
DL News2 September 2022
Africa
Nigeria: AG to prosecute Law Lecturer and student over alleged malpractice at Bar final exams
Suspended law lecturer at the University of Calabar, Pascal Aboh was arrested for allegedly impersonating and re-sitting an exam for a student at the Nigerian Law School in Abuja.
The Nigeria Lawyer25 August 2022
Supreme Court News
Secretly recording a telephone conversation with others is a breach of their right to privacy, unconstitutional, inadmissible - Supreme Court
"To allow such deliberate violation of rights would encourage litigants to sidestep the rules of evidence and thereby undermine the integrity of court proceedings and bring the administration of justice into disrepute. "
Richard Osei Boateng23 August 2022
US
Trump sues US government over FBI search of Mar-a-Lago
The ex-president seeks to prevent bureau from reading seized documents until court official weighs in.
The Guardian23 August 2022
Africa
Presidential election petition: High Court blocks Kenya's Chief Justice from gagging lawyers
The High Court quashed the Supreme Court (Presidential Election Petition Amendment Rules) 2022 that outlawed public comments on merits of a presidential election petition once filed at the Supreme Court and while it is still pending determi...
The Nation17 August 2022
General
We have nobody rivaling us - GBA president on splinter associations
“What bothers me was when this whole thing came, an association to rival the GBA – no, nobody can rival us, and today we don’t even know their leaders."
DL News15 August 2022
Business
GBA to make case for dispute settlement centre under AfCFTA to be established in Accra
Speaking on the Law programme by host, Samson Lardy Anyenini, he says the GBA will put together a team to front, and lobby for the Dispute Settlement Chamber.
DL News15 August 2022
Courts
KNUST: Police officer, student accused of rape remanded again
L/Cpl Frank Adu Poku and Joel Osei Owusu were arrested on July 19, 2022, and have since been charged with with two counts; conspiracy to commit rape and rape.
DL News10 August 2022
Courts
Savannah Region: Teacher sentenced seven years to jail for sodomising 18 students
The accused, Natogmah Yamousa Otabil was arrested on September 27, 2021, following complaints by some family members of the victims.
DL News9 August 2022
General
NUGS' Statement on the GSL entrance exams undertaking
We find the same unfortunate exercise of the General Legal Council’s mandate to dictate legal education policy in the country.
DL News5 August 2022
Europe
U.S. basketball star Griner convicted at drug trial, sentenced to 9 years
Griner’s detention was made public only after Russian troops moved into Ukraine, as relations between Russia and the United States hit new lows after Washington led the West in bringing sanctions against Moscow.
AP News5 August 2022
Courts
Six students of KNUST accused of rape remanded
The six are alleged to have raped a first-year student of the school.
DL News3 August 2022
Supreme Court News
Suit challenging use of CJ's name on writ of summons dismissed
The lawyer argued that both the letter and spirit of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana are breached by the continuos practice which undermines the sovereignty of Ghana.
DL News27 July 2022
Courts
JFAP: 73-year-old on remand for murder granted bail
He is accused of allegedly beating his grandson to death and had been on remand for three years.
DL News25 July 2022
Business
Creation of Registrar of Companies does not imply extinction to old RGD – Godfred Dame
The Office of the Registrar of Companies was set up under the Companies Act 2019, Act 992, establishing it as an entity outside the Attorney-General’s Department.
DL News22 July 2022