US
Ariana Grande to pay ex-husband $1.25m in divorce settlement
A Los Angeles Superior Court judgment on Tuesday finalised the split between the 30-year-old pop star and the 28-year-old real estate broker.
BBC
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Thai court orders Ex Prime Minister to serve one-year jail term
The 76-year-old billionaire politician, once a dominant force in Thai politics, had previously been sentenced to eight years for corruption and abuse of power after his return from exile in 2023.
DL News
Africa
Martha Koome - from women's right campaigner to Supreme Court chief justice
The 62-year-old was appointed chief justice in May last year by outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta after she came top of 10 candidates interviewed in front of a live television audience by Kenya's Judicial Service Commission (JSC).
BBC
Africa
Constant Omari: DR Congo’s former Fifa Council member handed one-year ban
The former Fifa Council member was adjudged to have received benefits from Lagardere during negotiations between the French media company and Caf.
DL News
Courts
Barber ex-convict remanded for armed taxi robbery at Haatso
Prosecutors say Gbetorglo, together with two accomplices—Peter Akakpo, alias Dompe, and one Ali, both still at large—snatched a Toyota Corolla taxi (GM 292-16) from driver Martin Obeng on New Year’s Day.
DL News
General
Cost of Legal Education in Ghana; Costly or fair price to be learned?
Critically examining the fees charged by law faculties, especially private ones and a portion of public ones, reveals a burden on the pockets of students, parents, and guardians.
Dennislaw Research Desk
Courts
Compel General Legal Council to offer us admission-143 Law School applicants to court
The suit which was deposed to by one Daniel Sackey, an applicant of the GSL, is seeking the court’s intervention to curb irreparable damage that will be done to them if the 2021/2022 academic year of the Ghana School of Law is started witho...
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US
‘Being a lawyer is a superpower’
After many years of life, I’ve learned that everyone is a little bit scared during a big transition like this,”
DL News
Courts
Court discharges Policeman, two others over robbery and murder of taxi driver
An Accra Circuit Court on Tuesday discharged General Lance Corporal Bright Akosah who allegedly shot and killed a taxi driver at Adjin Kotoku near Accra after robbing him of his vehicle.The court also discharged Ebenezer Tetteh, a trader an...
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Others
Judge Samuel Bright Acquah is a canker on the legal profession a the judicial service in Ghana: Martin Amidu writes
The question that immediately came to my mind was whether Judge Samuel Bright Acquah was a fit and proper person to have been enrolled on the Roll of Lawyers in Ghana in the first place.
Martin Amidu
Courts
Court grants GH¢700,000 bail to two persons for pulling down storey building
The first accused person, Bernard Arhin, a 68-year-old driver, was admitted to bail in the sum of GH¢500,000 with three sureties, one of the sureties is to be justified.
GNA
Crime
Child labour on cocoa farms in Ghana : Cadbury faces fresh accusations
A new TV documentary alleges that children as young as 10 are using machetes to harvest pods
the guardian
Crime
Seven nabbed for abducting and killing 12-year boy at Nornyikpo
The suspects are; Hunor Kofi Koko alias Ando Kofi, 30, Anani Koko, 23, Senanu Ashitor Atsikpo, 28, Kwamevi Kagbetor 37, Louis Etse, 25, Kudzo Akpatsu, 49 and Fianyo Sandema, 39.
DL News
General
Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraud
Behind the stately yellow portico of the colonial-era courthouse in Ho Chi Minh City, a 67-year-old Vietnamese property developer was sentenced to death on Thursday.
BBC
US
US: Former law firm partner sentenced two years to prison for cyberstalking ex-colleagues
In one of his threats, he is said to have told one victim to “sleep with one eye open.”
DL News
Africa
French court fines, sentences Oppong Weah’s son for reckless partying
A court in France has announced a six-month suspended jail sentence for George Weah Jr., the elder son of Liberian President George Weah, for reckless partying, noise pollution, and disturbing the peace of his neighbors outside his Paris ho...
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Others
Lawyer stress management: Essential tips for 2025
In fact, 38% of lawyers work extended hours, and one in four report insufficient breaks throughout the day. These factors contribute to poor mental health and, in extreme cases, thoughts of suicide.
Lawyer Monthly
Africa
Nigeria: Police arrest fake Rev'd Sister for child trafficking, rescue 15 children
During the parade of suspects by the State Commissioner of Police, Friday Eboka, it was revealed that the children rescued from the suspected trafficker were aged between seven and nine years.
AllAfrica
General
Book Review: legal issues raised by Yaa Gyasi’s ‘Homegoing’
With very compelling events of history, from Ghana and America, it tells a story about two-generation of sisters; Effia and Esi
DL News
General
Book Review: Selected Papers and Lectures on Ghanaian Law
A BOOK REVIEW BY JUSTICE SIR DENNIS ADJEI, FGA
DL News