Opinion
Allodial interest under the Land Act, 2020: Some thoughts
The article discusses the position and seeming challenges with allodial interests under Ghana's Land Act, 2020
Justice Alexander Osei Tutu
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General
Building Your own Legal Empire: Dare to be Different -Lawyer Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang writes
I remember at the Faculty of Law University of Ghana at our time, the most popular electives were Trade and Investment Law, Commercial Law, Private International Law. However, I chose with few others to study Natural Resources Law.
Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang, Former Director of the Ghana School of Law
Others
Trading Under The Diplomatic Shield: Reconstructing The Commercial Activity Exception To Diplomatic Immunity
This article examines the tension between diplomatic immunity and private commercial accountability under Ghanaian law. It argues that Ghana reflects the restrictive doctrine of sovereign immunity, especially through the commercial activity...
DL News
Courts
Full judgment: Why Wontumi was jailed 20 years
He was also fined 10,000 penalty units on each count. In default of payment, he is to serve an additional three-year term of imprisonment with hard labour under each count.
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General
Opposing gay rights stance crowding good reasons-Kofi Abotsi
The Church whose members make up an estimated 10% of the country’s population has noted that parliamentarians are morally obliged to pass the laws that are of interest to the majority of Ghanaians.
General
GBA Women and Minors Rights Committee educates Volta communities on rights
The training, organized in partnership with the Department of Gender, aimed to tackle important human rights issues, particularly those affecting vulnerable groups such as women and children.
DL News
Opinion
The Circuit Court’s Jurisdiction in Ghanaian Land Disputes: A Jurisdiction at Large
This paper examines the misconception that the Circuit Court in Ghana is limited by a GHC 2,000,000 jurisdictional cap in land disputes. Through legal analysis, it argues that the Circuit Court’s jurisdiction in land matters—regarding owner...
Her Honour Judge Sedinam Awo Kwadam (Mrs.)
Courts
High Court dismisses injunction against Oshuiman stool
The injunction which was filed by Nii Kojo Buabeng II on behalf of the Abbeyman Family sought to restrain the Oshuiman stool and the Mankralo from dealing with the disputed land.
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Business
Ghana’s real estate industry, national development-Tsikata billed for CIR Lecture
The lectures are scheduled for June 18th, 20th, 25th, and 27th, 2024, and will take place at the Africa Trade House auditorium in Ridge, Accra.
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Business
Beware of fraudulent sales of our lands-University of Ghana
In a notice issued by the Public Affairs Directorate, the University expressed deep concern over recent reports of individuals—believed to be from Osu—falsely claiming government approval to sell parts of its land.
Richard Osei Boateng
Courts
Former MCE, 8 others in custody for not satisfying bail conditions in state land sale case
Each accused was granted bail of GH¢800,000, backed by three sureties with landed property, but prosecutors say none of the defendants has satisfied the requirements.
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Courts
Kumasi court bails former MCE, 8 others GH¢800K bail over state land deal
The former MCE, Alhaji Alidu Seidu, and the others are alleged to have conspired to dispose of 10.54 acres of public land at Buoban, a suburb of Kumasi, which had been reserved for a health facility.
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General
8,160 public land lease applications reviewed nationwide-Lands Minister
The exercise followed a directive by President John Dramani Mahama on 10 January 2025, which ordered the Lands Commission to suspend all activity related to leasing and processing public land transactions.
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Courts
School Administrator in dock over GH¢750k Kokrobite land scam
Djabum, who faces a charge of Fraudulent Transaction of Land under Section 277(2)(a) of the Land Act, 2020 (Act 1036), pleaded not guilty before His Honour Jojo Amoah Hagan.
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Courts
Protracted Keta land dispute heads to Sogakope High Court
Mr. Pomeyie, son of the late Elsie Worlali, argues that the contested land belonged to his parents, who are said to have occupied it for over three decades.
DL News
Courts
House help in GH¢80k land fraud granted bail
The Amasaman Circuit Court, presided over by Justice Enid Sarful-Sau, has granted Boatemaa a GH¢100,000 bail with two sureties.
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Courts
Court remands land guards over alleged threat of death
Kwaku Badu, 51, and Issah Oko Okai, 38, are alleged of arranged a group of land guards and caused unlawful damage to the windscreen of an excavator costing GH¢44,000 owned by Comet Property Limited.
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General
Licensed surveyors can help create a digitized land-litigated database – Chief Justice
“I know you have begun some engagements and I urge you to design capacity-building workshops to train judges on the rudiments of your practice and the changing phase you so espouse"
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General
Atone tenancy or risk losing your properties- Nungua Stool to Trassaco homeowners, residents
A notice dated September 1, 2022, and signed by the Gborbu Wulomo referring to a December 2020 judgment of the Supreme Court, noted that the developers of the estate; Empire Builders, acquired no form of interest in any land from the stool.
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Crime
Land dispute: Retired lecturer shot in Wa
The one who fired the shot has been arrested and is currently in police custody for murder and causing harm.
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