Results for "Petty offenders"
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Crime
Criminalizing drumming, begging doesn’t make sense anymore – GIMPA Law HOD
Dr. Tuffuor quizzed what we seek to gain as a nation by punishing a group of people who may meet in a house to drum just because they have not acquired a license from the District Assembly?
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Election Petition
2 lawyers with 8 years experience can handle NDC’s petty petition – Lawyer Sambian
A Private legal practitioner Lawyer Sulley Sambian is urging the governing New Patriotic Party(NPP) not to exert much energy by deploying several lawyers to face the opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) in its suit at the Supreme Co...
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General
There hasn't been enough push for community sentencing – Martin Kpebu
Over the years, stakeholders in the justice delivery system (the likes of CHRAJ and POS Foundation) have called for non-custodial sentencing, especially for offenders of petty crime.
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General
Interior Minister presents Community Sentencing bill to parliament
Introducing the bill in the House, Interior Minister Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak said the reform is designed to decongest prisons and reduce the cost of keeping low-level offenders behind bars.
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Africa
Kenya's judiciary proposes abolishing death penalty, reduced sentences
Kenya's Chief Justice Martha Koome is seeking changes to certain laws drafted in 1930, before Kenya gained independence, that seek harsher penalties for capital offenders.
VOA Africa
General
AG to train RTI Commission staff on prosecution of offenders
The Commission has secured a fiat from the Office of the Attorney General relative to the prosecution of offenders under Act 989.
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Business
Abossey Okai spare parts dealers to enforce ban on foreigners in local trade
In a statement signed by its Communications Director, Takyi Addo, the Association said the initiative will focus on Section 27(1) of the Act, which bars non-citizens from engaging in petty trading, hawking, or selling in stalls and markets.
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Courts
Unibank Trial: More than ¢56.2 million withdrawn from inter-branch ledger account - Witness
The accused persons in this matter have been charged with fraudulent breach of trust, money laundering, dishonest appropriation, wilfully causing financial loss to the Republic, and conspiracy to commit crime.
GNA
Courts
Mankessim murder: Accused persons murdered one other person – Police
The victim, Gloria Yeboah, who is said to have been reported missing in June 2022, was a petty trader from Obokrom in Kumasi, the Ashanti Region.
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General
Parliament passes Community Service Bill to reduce prison overcrowding
The new law introduces community service as a non-custodial sentencing option for persons convicted of specified categories of offences.
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General
No compromise on exam fraud, offenders will be punished – Deputy Education Minister
No compromise on exam fraud, offenders will be punished – Deputy Education Minister
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General
Language of criminal code is an Old Testament approach to handling crime, says Seth Awuku
He spoke to host Samson Lardy Anyenini on The Law programme, discussing community sentencing as an alternative to custodial sentencing.
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General
Crime Check Foundation holds workshop on bye-laws
The project also aims at decriminalising bye-laws that fight against poverty.
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Crime
30 dragged to court as Kwadaso Assembly toughens sanitation enforcement
The update was given by Municipal Environmental Health Officer Genevieve Anthony during the commissioning of four skip containers meant to improve waste collection in the area.
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Courts
AMA court fines 21 Agbogbloshie traders GH¢600 each for sanitation offences
The offences included selling at unauthorised locations, obstructing pedestrian walkways, and blocking access roads with tricycles, popularly known as “Pragya”.
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Courts
Judge warns against multiple land sales as farmer faces court
Justice Jephthah Appau said the courts would apply the full force of the law to offenders as a deterrent to others. He noted that such acts not only breached the Lands Act, 2020 (Act 1036) but also created unnecessary disputes and tarnished...
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