Opinion
Celebration of the Constitution Day: Any Relevance?
This article offers insights into improving Constitution Day celebrations in Ghana to make them more relevant and memorable
Benjamin Tachie Antiedu and Goodnuff Appiah Larbi
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Default Judgment and the Doctrine of Estoppel Per Rem Judicata; A Legal Conundrum in Order 10 Rule 6 & Order 13 Rule 6(2) of the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2004 (C. I 47)
Default judgement is an interlocutory application. It is not a final judgement in its strict sense. Any anything default is not final in a legal sense. Res judicata on the other hand is mostly applied when decisions of the courts are final....
Derick Adu-Gyamfi
Opinion
Global Pandemics and International Law: An Evaluation of State Responsibility and States’ Human Rights Obligations arising from COVID-19
This six-part article offers suggestions on how states may better utilize international law and the opportunities that international co-operation offers, to prepare themselves for a next possible pandemic.
Christopher Yaw Nyinevi
Opinion
We are divorced. My wife is abroad!
In this humorous and exciting recount, the author discusses a television drama from her childhood in which a court upheld a man's argument that he was right in marrying another wife because his wife (married under the ordinance) was out of...
Bertha A. Aniagyei
Opinion
The Decline of Allodial Title in Ghana
The article retraces the circumstances that have contributed to the decline of allodial interests/titles in Ghana's land law, including provisions in law that have contributed to this realization
Justice Alexander Osei Tutu
Opinion
Wait! Don’t accept those website cookies without looking
The author warns about the dangers of website cookies and offers guidelines on how to use them
Nicholas Lenin Anane Agyei
Opinion
21st Century Restatement of the principle in Kponuglo v. Kodadja
The writer lays more emphasis on how the Kodadja principle has gone under the knife on a couple of occasions especially in this century at the blind side of its numerous admirers
Justice Alexander Osei Tutu
Opinion
The meaning of 'Judiciary' in light of Articles 126(1) and (5) of the 1992 Constitution
The author argues that the Supreme Court narrowed the definition of 'Judiciary' in the case of Judicial Service Association of Ghana V Attorney-General & National Pension Regulatory Authority, Fair Wages Commission. Find out why in this art...
Derick Adu-Gyamfi
Opinion
Can the ordinary Ghanaian plead Ignorance of Law?
The author inquires into the question of whether or not an ordinary Ghanaian can plead ignorance of law if found to be in conflict with the criminal laws of Ghana, drawing from the recent case involving Ghanaian entertainment personality, R...
Benjamin Tachie Antiedu and Goodnuff Appiah Larbi
Opinion
He who alleges must prove
I keep reading this argument that because article 64 proceedings are ‘SUI GENERIS,’ (to wit of its own kind; unique) somehow, known rule of evidence do not or should not apply, and that the common law-based adversarial system of justice sho...
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