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Europe
US basketball star Griner pleads guilty to drug charges in Russian court
The 31-year-old was arrested in February at a Moscow airport after Russian officials say they found cannabis oil in her luggage.
CNN7 July 2022
Courts
Trial of former Deputy Finance Minister adjourned to July 21
The Health Minister, who started his evidence in chief on June 28, 2022, led by the Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame has said that he noticed that ambulances were supposedly procured by the Ministry of Health, but had not been delivere...
DL News6 July 2022
Courts
Court of Appeal releases confiscated East Legon House to Nayele Ametepe’s mum
In January 2015, after Nayele Ametepe Alia Ruby Appiah was convicted and sentenced in the United Kingdom for the possession of 12.5 kg of Cocaine, the said house was seized by the Narcotics Control Board.
DL News21 June 2022
Europe
Ukraine war: Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner sentenced to death
The court, which is not internationally recognized, is in the pro-Russian so-called Donetsk People's Republic.
BBC10 June 2022
Africa
Nigerian-American surgeon jailed 27 years for fraud
The spokesperson for the Police Special Fraud Unit in Lagos State, in a statement said the defendants were arraigned in 2016 before the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, for conspiracy and obtaining property under false pretences.
Punch Nigeria9 June 2022
Courts
Opuni signed but didn’t write letter to PPA for fertilizer purchase – 4th Defence Witness tells court
Dr. Opuni and Agongo, the CEO of Agricult Ghana Limited, are on trial for allegedly engaging in illegalities in a series of fertilizer transactions which the Attorney-General (A-G) says caused a financial loss of GH¢271.3 million to the sta...
DL News7 June 2022
General
Check out Dampare’s 15 questions to the British High Commissioner on Barker-Vormawor’s arrest
In a statement dated May 17, 2022, the IGP notes that “ordinarily the Ghana Police would not have responded to a comment such as yours, obviously made from either a bias or uninformed position.”
DL News31 May 2022
Supreme Court News
Supreme Court dismisses Opuni’s ‘no case’ suit
The Supreme Court has dismissed a motion by Stephen Kwabena Opuni in which he was invoking the original jurisdiction of the court, relative to the dismissal of his submission of no case by the High Court (Criminal Division).
DL News18 May 2022
Africa
Nigerian atheist Mubarak Bala jailed for blaspheming Islam
Mubarak Bala, a 37-year-old president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria was arrested in 2020 after a group of Muslims filed a petition to authorities accusing him of posting uncomplimentary messages about Islam on social media.
BBC5 April 2022
Africa
Demand for African arbitration centres on the rise – Report
Increasing disputes between African parties are being resolved ‘onshore’, through African arbitral institutions and local courts, as opposed to the former practice of ‘offshore’ resolution of disputes.
DL News5 April 2022
Courts
Application for Stay of Proceedings: High Court to give ruling April 26
The MP has been charged by the state on five counts of perjury and forgery of passport.
DL News30 March 2022
Courts
Conduct speedy trial of rape case-ECOWAS court to Nigeria
The applicant, a Nigerian woman filed a suit at the court against Peter Okoro for raping her somewhere in 2011 in Lagos.
DL News24 March 2022
Courts
ECOWAS Court orders AG to file additional documents by March 28, pay $750
The court presided over by Edward Amoako Asante declined the AG's request and described the reason for its late response as untenable and ordered the same to pay an amount of $750 to Transparency International.
DL News23 March 2022
Courts
Offence of Treason Felony not supported by facts, grant me bail: Oliver Barker tells Court
Oliver has maintained before the Tema High Court that the state has no case against him
DL News11 March 2022
General
EOCO warns against an emerging force in internet fraud
Details of the measures to track the perpetrators are under wraps but she insisted EOCO was working with various security agencies, the Telcos and the Attorney General’s office to fish such characters out.
GRAPHIC ONLINE4 March 2022
Courts
€2.3 million financial loss suit: Ato Forson, 2 others granted bail
A Former Deputy Finance Minister and Member of Parliament for Ajumako Enyam Essiam, Cassiel Ato Forson, and two others have been granted bail by an Accra High Court.
DL News18 January 2022
General
Conflict of interest: MPs must cease membership of boards- Legal Practitioner
A private Legal Practitioner and lecturer at the University of Ghana Law school, Clara Beeri Kasser-Tee is advocating the discontinuance of the practice where MPs are allowed to hold membership of private and public boards.
DL News17 January 2022
Courts
QNET condemns criminal actions by two distributors
QNET does not and will not condone any such misconduct. We are deeply disappointed with the developing outcome of this isolated and unfortunate incident.
DL News11 December 2021
US
Prosecutors ask US Supreme Court to review Bill Cosby’s overturned sexual assault conviction
The petition has not yet been officially received by the US Supreme Court
DL News28 November 2021
Courts
Illegal gold, money laundering: 2 Chinese, Ghanaians fined
The Office of the Attorney General is indicating its commitment to fight against illegal Gold business, Economic crime and crime in general.
DL News16 November 2021