Crime
Chainsaw operator jailed 10 years for unlawful damage
Tabitey pleaded guilty to the charge and was convicted on his own plea by a Jasikan Circuit Court.
GNA
Results for "Section 43 of Act 1019"
2452 results.
Africa
Nigeria: Court orders man to clean mosque for accommodating thieves
Mr Ibrahim, of Zuba fruit market Abuja, pleaded guilty to belonging to a gang of thieves and begged the court for leniency.
Peoples Gazette
General
Former Commonwealth Hall JCR Executives handed 3 years suspension each
According to a notice dated January 8, 2023, these Executives are said to have organized or allowed the organization of the Junior Common Room(JCR) of Commonwealth Hall on August 18 and 19, 2022.
DL News
Africa
Nigeria: Sharia court sentences cleric to death by hanging for blasphemy
The defendant was arraigned on July 16, 2021 by Kano State government on four counts charge bordering on blasphemous comments against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Peoples Gazette
Courts
Man who allegedly slapped Regional Minister after blocking road granted GH₵ 50 000 bail
Charged with causing road obstruction, threat of death, assault on public officer and offensive conduct conducive to the breach of the peace, Koomson, a family head has pleaded not guilty.
GNA
Crime
Barber, another sentenced 32 years for robbery
Yaw Ofori Asiamah, barber, and Emmanuel Ocran Kounakey, unemployed, denied conspiring to rob a trader of her purse, containing a mobile phone and GHS44.00 but were found culpable after trial and sentenced to 16 years each.
GNA
US
US Supreme Court hears case of web designer who doesn't want to work on same-sex weddings
Challenging the law is Lorie Smith, a custom web designer who is opposed to same-sex marriage. "I want to design for weddings that are consistent with my faith," she says.
NPR
US
Unpaid $77 Trash Bill: Police arrest elderly Alabama woman
Martha Louis Menefield said she was confused as officers handcuffed her and arrested her on Sunday.
BBC
Courts
Two jailed 70 years for kidnapping, robbery
Richmond Kluttey, 26, and Samuel Olise, 27, aka Junior, were found guilty on the charges of conspiracy to kidnap and rob, kidnapping and robbery at the end of the trial.
GNA
Africa
Nigeria: Unemployed man ordered to sweep court premises for stealing perfume
The complainant claimed the convict entered the store and stole three perfumes worth N4,000 ($9.00).
Peoples Gazette
Africa
Lesotho: Death penalty for HIV rapists unconstitutional, top court rules
In particular, the court held that stipulating the death penalty for a convicted rapist, held to have known he was HIV positive at the time of the crime, infringed the constitutional right to freedom from discrimination and to a right to eq...
AllAfrica
Supreme Court News
Victims of Ejura incident petition Parliament over Justice Koomson’s confirmation to Supreme Court
Justice Koomson, a Supreme Court nominee, who appeared before Parliaments Appointments Committee on Tuesday, chaired the Inter-ministerial committee that was tasked to investigate the Ejura violence.
DL News
General
GBA not an elitist organization – President Akufo-Addo
According to him, such statements and views are unsubstantiated because the GBA is rather an institution that has stood up and continues to champion good governance in the country and thus needs the support of all.
DL News
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).
BBC
General
Press statement :World Day Against Trafficking Persons
International Justice Mission is a Non-Governmental Organization. It has been working in Ghana over the last seven years and across the globe for over twenty-five years. It has 24 program offices in 14 countries.
IJM
Courts
Pub owners fined over noise pollution
The owners pleaded guilty to not complying with existing noise regulations.
DL News
Crime
AMA sanctions street preachers for making noise, operating without permit
Public Health Officers of the Assembly issued the notices on Friday, 15th July 2022 when they stormed the CBD to enforce the Abatement of Noise Bye-Law.
Accra Metropolitan Assembly
US
Ed Sheeran and co-writers awarded £900,000 legal costs after copyright win
Sheeran and Shape of You co-writers Steven McCutcheon and John McDaid had been accused of copying a song by grime artist Sami Chokri and Ross O'Donoghue.
BBC
General
Claims that judges receive ex-gratia malicious – AMJG
The issue of ex-gratia became a center spread recently when a former Council of State member, Togbe Afede XIV returned over GHC 300, 000 which was ex-gratia paid to him for his service
DL News
General
Language of criminal code is an Old Testament approach to handling crime, says Seth Awuku
He spoke to host Samson Lardy Anyenini on The Law programme, discussing community sentencing as an alternative to custodial sentencing.
DL News