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Crime
Dealing with the judgment debt ‘conundrum’: AG’s office needs ‘wholesome reform’-CSJ
The issue of judgment debt is one of great concern to the State and Ghanaians alike.
DL News
Business
Top King’s Judgment does not cover the current location of our estate- Trassacco speaks
The Company has put forward the sequence of events which culminated in the Supreme Court judgment in the Civil Appeal No., J4/10/2019, entitled Empire Builders Limited vs. TopKings and 4 others;
DL News
Opinion
The departure which must itself be departed from-Comment on the Supreme Court Decision of GHANA TELECOMMUNICATIONS CO. LTD & ANOR v ATTA VI.
This writer submits that the Ogyeadom case could never, as perceived by the Court, have settled the question whether or not the Court is jurisdictionally competent to entertain and grant an application for stay of execution pending the dete...
Thaddeus Sory
Courts
No new judgment against Ghana as AG clarifies Trafigura debt
This clarification follows reports that a District of Columbia Court ordered the Ghanaian government to pay over $111 million, plus post-judgment interest, in favor of the Ghana Power Generation Company (GPGC).
DL News
Supreme Court News
Madina, Adenta, Oyarifa, Ayi Mensa and over 70,000 acre lands don't belong to Numo Nmashie Family - Supreme Court
The court, therefore, directed the Lands Commission to expunge all registration and certificates issued to the Numo Nmashie Family of Teshie, and the Tetteh Olewolon Family, in respect of the 72,000 acres.
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Courts
Chief Justice $5 million bribery allegation: meritorious or counterintuitive?
In the face of these, is the $5 million allegation levelled against the Chief Justice of Ghana plausible?
DL News
Courts
Court dismisses Nana Kwame Bediako’s motion to stop Cola Holdings US$14.9m judgment enforcement
The ruling was delivered on Monday, July 27, 2026, by Justice Awuah Dabanka-Bekoe of the High Court, Commercial Division 3.
DL News
Supreme Court News
Ecobank must pay monthly compound interest to Daniel Ofori-Supreme Court
In a ruling delivered on 6 May 2026, the court held that Mr Ofori, the plaintiff and judgment creditor, is entitled to monthly compounded interest at 30 percent on his principal investment from 2 June 2008 to 25 July 2018, the date of judgm...
DL News
Courts
Winners Chapel Ghana Church Ownership Fight: Do not use “Winners Chapel” as part of name of your breakaway group church, account for your stewardship
The Court of Appeal has delivered a judgment restraining Pastor George Adjeman and 12 others from using the name “Winners Chapel” as part of the name of their breakaway group church.
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Supreme Court News
NDKs claim of 1.2bn thrown out by the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled that the Government will not have to pay the GHS 1.2bn judgment debt application filed by NDK Financial Services
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Opinion
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
Supreme Court News
Husband’s house cannot be attached to satisfy wife’s debt—Supreme Court
The panel addressed the plaintiff’s argument that the wife had signed the indenture for the building and was therefore presumed to have a share in the property.
Richard Osei Boateng
General
Practice Direction Alert: Drawing up entry of Judgment: Ken Kwame Asamoah vs. State Insurance Company [2022] DLSC 11430
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Tech
Ending land litigation: Surveyor advocates national land database
“If people cannot have confidence in the judicial system, they will take the law into their own hands, and that is what we see playing out so dangerously, claiming innocent lives and discouraging investors,”
DL News
Business
“Put ceiling on judgment debts allowed,” Oteng-Gyasi urges Parliament
Earlier in July 2019, the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta disclosed that total receipts issued as judgment debts to various parties totaled GH¢283 million
DL News
Opinion
Locus Standi of a Stranger to a Judgment; Analysis on the Decisions in Jacques v Harrison, Gbagbo v Owusu & Lamptey v Hammond
In this paper the author delves among others, into various cases and examines how a person can acquire locus standi to fall into the rule in Lamptey v Hammond.
Derick Adu-Gyamfi, Esq.