Africa
Liberia gets third female chief justice
She replaces Francis Saye Korkpor who retires this month after reaching the constitutional limit of 70 years.
BBC
Results for "2022 Gender Analysis of Judges"
2355 results.
General
AG, Georgetown University scholarship deal: First 5 lawyers set to begin post-graduate programs
The deal, which is under the auspices of the Ghana Scholarship secretariat, has its first five beneficiaries comprising State Attorneys and Private Legal practitioners respectively.
DL News
Africa
South Africa: Police Minister ordered to pay $24,000 after unlawful arrest and detention
A Limpopo-based conservationist, who was arrested by 16 police officers on trumped-up charges and locked up in filthy cells for three days, has been awarded $24,000 (R400,000) in damages for unlawful arrest and detention.
AllAfrica
Africa
ECOWAS Court declares Nigeria’s Twitter ban unlawful
Following the deletion of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, announced the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria in June 2021.
Premium Times Nig
Europe
FIFA trial: Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini cleared of corruption
Prosecutors acquitted Blatter on charges of unlawfully funneling 2 million Swiss francs ($2.06 million) of FIFA funds to Platini, a former France national team captain and manager in 2011.
DW
Crime
Arise Ghana Demo: Police clash with protesting demonstrators, three reportedly arrested
Some officers sustained injuries and police vehicles were shown destroyed in photos and videos shared by the police on social media.
DL News
Africa
Nigeria's Chief Justice resigns on health grounds
The resignation by Mr. Muhammad, 68, comes about 18 months ahead of his official retirement in December 2023, when he will clock 70.
Premium Times Nig
Europe
UK: Barristers to strike over legal aid rates
Barristers are in dispute with the Ministry of Justice over legal aid rates in criminal cases, which they say are so low that many junior lawyers can earn less than the minimum wage when their expenses are taken into account.
The Times
General
"Nutshells, award of damages and equitable remedies in Ghanaian Courts"
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.
DL News
Europe
Rwanda asylum plan: Court allows first flight to go ahead
Under the scheme, some of those entering the UK illegally will be flown to Rwanda to apply for asylum there.
BBC
US
Armed man arrested near US Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh’s home
The man, identified as 26-year-old Nicholas John Roske of Simi Valley, California on Wednesday, was carrying a handgun he had purchased for the purpose of killing Kavanaugh.
aljazeera
General
Legal academics should return to law and development research – Prof. Justice Date-Bah
He largely stressed that the Ghanaian legal system has played and continues to play an important role in Ghana’s development process.
DL News
Others
Indian High Court grants divorce to husband on ground of cruelty after wife found to be adulterous
It was noted that after reconciling their differences and deciding to co-habit with each other after a long hiatus, the couple lived together hardly for 24 days, but the wife was found to be pregnant for over 40 days.
Bar and Bench
General
EOCO Director elected Executive Member of Anti-Corruption Institutions in Commonwealth Africa
EOCO Director elected Executive Member of Anti-Corruption Institutions in Commonwealth Africa
DL News
Courts
Accept outcome of cases in good faith, stop running down the Judiciary- JUSAG
Accept outcome of cases in good faith, stop running down the Judiciary- JUSAG
DL News
Tech
Is Artificial Intelligence Undermining The Legal System?
Globally recognised artificial intelligence expert Dr Lance Eliot explains how AI is undermining the legal system.
lawyer-monthly.com | Dr. Lance Eliot
General
30 years of Referendum 1992 : What the Lord Justices have said on constitutions
The current Constitution was approved exactly 30 years ago on April 28, 1992, through a National Referendum after about 92% approval. It was then officially adopted on January 7, 1993.
Richard Osei Boateng
General
Read Article 41 of 1992 Constitution regularly for Spirit of Patriotism – Sir Justice Dennis Adjei
Sir Justice Dennis Adjei noted that it is only a regular and routine reading of the article that will enable Ghanaians to develop this all-important value, needed by citizens for the cause of the nation.
DL News
General
Legal experts call for review of ADR Act
Some legal experts have called for the review of the Alternative Disputes Resolution (ADR) Act and Legal Aid Commission Act to include petty offences.
GNA
General
Biased justice threat to national security – Minister
Mr Kan Dapaah advised that when the bench is also perceived to be biased, citizens may eventually take the law into their own hands.
DL News