Courts
Aisha Huang, three others remanded over illegal mining
Aisha was remanded into lawful custody by an Accra Circuit Court last Friday, after the court preserved her plea because there was no Chinese interpreter.
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Business
Law Clerk Services Company launched: Great relief for lawyers, individuals, organizations
JL Clerk Services: Serving lawyers with speed and efficiency
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Business
Minerals Development Fund: Chamber of mines calls for regular payments by GRA, others
Speaking at a development partnership symposium in Accra, the Chief Executive Officer of the Chamber, Sulemanu Koney bemoaned the delay of payment of such funds into the MDF describing the situation as unhealthy.
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General
Extend Customs auction sales investigation to cover 2009-2015 – 2 persons petition OSP
As people with considerable interest in and support for the work of the Special Prosecutor, and for an anti-corruption society generally, we petition, herein, your esteemed office to consider extending the period for the investigation to co...
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Courts
$165m arbitral award: US court grants UG’s motion against Ace US Insurer’s petition
On July 30, 2021, the Ace Insurer, Chubb filed this petition pursuant to the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), and the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards seeking to confirm and enforce an alleged foreign...
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Africa
Presidential election petition: High Court blocks Kenya's Chief Justice from gagging lawyers
The High Court quashed the Supreme Court (Presidential Election Petition Amendment Rules) 2022 that outlawed public comments on merits of a presidential election petition once filed at the Supreme Court and while it is still pending determi...
The Nation
General
La Bianca, its CEO, Customs did nothing wrong – Council of Freight and Trade disputes OSP's report
In its Press Release, the Council notes that both Labianca and the Customs division of the GRA acted in accordance with the laws of Ghana thus Customs Act 2015(Act 891).
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Courts
Customary marriage dissolution :Presenting drinks, same being accepted by family not enough – Court
"Applying the personal law of the parties, which is the Akan customary law, I find that the customary marriage between the parties was not dissolved in accordance with the customs of Akropong where the Petitioner hails from as there was a b...
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Africa
Sierra Leone now has new land rights law to promote gender, tribal equality and social justice
The new law will also promote gender equality and ensure that married couples can jointly register land ownership.
Sierra Leone Telegraph
Courts
Nigerian who allegedly defrauded Ukrainian businessman granted GHC 20m bail
Mr. Anwamini was arrested by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) on July 21, 2022, and charged with three counts of Uttering forged documents, defrauding by false pretences, and money laundering.
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US
Former Top Aide to Pence, Marc Short Has Testified Before January 6 Grand Jury
In January of this year, Short made an appearance before the House select committee investigating the January 6 incident in response to a subpoena
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General
Prevalence of bribery highest among police officers – Report
The report titled, ‘Corruption in Ghana: Peoples experiences and views’ launched yesterday, July 20, 2022, was co-produced by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), the Ghana Statistical Service, and with support...
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Courts
Chairman Wontumi cites UTV, Fadda Dickson, and 4 others for contempt of court
You may recall that on June 9, 2022, Bernard Antwi Boasiako aka Chairman Wontumi instituted a legal action at the High Court, Tema against Valentina Nana Agyeiwaa popularly called Afia Schwarzenegger.
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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...
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Courts
Ato Forson trial: Ambulances were procured, but not delivered – Health Minister Agyemang-Manu
Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, and two others; Dr. Sylvester Anemana and businessman, Richard Jakpa have been charged by the state for causing financial loss, over the importation of 200 ambulances in a contract between the Ministry of Health and...
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Europe
Widower wins right to have baby using embryo created with his late wife
The UK high court’s family division ruled that Jennings can use the embryo, in what could be the UK's first case of posthumous surrogacy.
The Guardian
Business
About GHC 54,000,000 realized in 1st month of E-levy – BoG
“As far as the E-levy is concerned, what we are beginning to see in the numbers since May, I think roughly we are seeing something like 54 million Ghana cedis is what has come in for the first month."
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Courts
Payment for ambulances : Ato Forson did not do the authorization – 2nd Prosecution witness
Former Deputy Finance Minister, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, and two others; Dr. Sylvester Anemana and businessman, Richard Jakpa have been charged by the state for causing financial loss over the importation of 30 ambulances out a total of 200.
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Courts
Submit applications to access unclaimed funds paid into court by parties – CJ invites legitimate claimants
In a notice signed by the Chief Justice, he notes that these monies have been lodged in deposit accounts of the Judicial Service but some of the orders did not carry any formal further directive for investments of the funds by the courts.
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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...
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