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UK: Magistrates' sentencing powers scaled back
Powers had been doubled less than a year ago to tackle backlog in courts and cut prison overcrowding
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Europe
Powers had been doubled less than a year ago to tackle backlog in courts and cut prison overcrowding
The Guardian

Courts
According to the affidavit in support of the contempt summons, the CID boss together with one officer at the Property Fraud Unit are allegedly meddling in the about 24 years Adjiriganor and Borteyman land dispute between Top Kings and the o...
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General
“Practice at the Supreme Court is to test your strength. Don’t be the lawyer whose practice will end at the Circuit Courts."
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General
These are contained in the 2021 Annual Auditor General’s Report for Ministries, Departments, and other Agencies.
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Courts
To enable the clerk to identify the parties and lawyers to give access to, lawyers, parties, or representatives must use their full names to sign in.
Richard Osei Boateng

Tech
This is the first in what is expected to be a series of improvements in general user experiences
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General
He spoke at the opening of the ADR week launched in Kumasi yesterday.
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General
The Judicial Service has adopted ADR as part of its adjudication process dubbed “Court-connected ADR”.
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Africa
Home Secretary Priti Patel said she was "disappointed" but added: "Preparation for the next flight begins now."
BBC

General
The book, which is dedicated to the RT Hon Prof Aaron Mike Ocquaye, has its forward written by His Lordship Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, Justice of the Supreme Court.
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Courts
The Chief Registrar, Seidu Yusif has directed Security officers at the various courts to do a thorough search of all persons with luggage and a further mandatory inspection of all incoming vehicles.
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Courts
The decision of the Court of Appeal in this matter re-affirms the principles engraved in section 59 of the ADR 2010 Act 798, thereby giving force to the provisions on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral awards. By this decision,...
By Bakhita M. Koblavie and Dennis Adjei Dwomoh

General
“Be that as it may, perhaps this may be the end of my legal professional journey but I do not fear to leave the “noble” profession for cautioning against “ignoble” acts of few bad nuts that can destroy our democracy.”
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US
The Supreme Court will enter a new year Friday but there’s still election drama from 2020 on its plate. The Trump campaign this week twice asked the court to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s win in Wisconsin.
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General
efforts to urgently break the monopoly of the Ghana School of Law as the sole institution to provide professional law courses in the country must be revisited.
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Courts
The watchman himself must be watched.
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Courts
A Cape Coast High Court annulled the 2020 Parliamentary Election for the Assin North Constituency on Wednesday, July 28, 2021.
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General
"The occasional use of archaic colonial legal relics like Section 202 of Act 29 by the police to undermine constitutional rights, particularly the right to assemble, exposes the stagnation we continue to experience in efforts to promote and...
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Africa
If parliament formally approves the nomination of Justice Martha Koome as the next Chief Justice of Kenya and president of the Supreme Court, as is widely expected, she will become the first woman to occupy the seat in Kenya’s history. Just...
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Election Petition
The Chief Justice has reminded the general public of the Judiciary’s earlier announced measures to decongest the courts.
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