Opinion
Allodial interest under the Land Act, 2020: Some thoughts
The article discusses the position and seeming challenges with allodial interests under Ghana's Land Act, 2020
Justice Alexander Osei Tutu
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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
The Land Act: A Model For Integration Of Customary Law Into A Modern Legislation
Ghana’s Land Act, 2020 exemplifies a landmark effort to integrate customary law into modern statutory land governance by codifying indigenous principles, promoting fiduciary accountability, and ensuring legal recognition of customary intere...
Justice Alexander Osei Tutu
Others
The principle of quicquid plantatur solo, solo cedit
This article argues that the maxim quicquid plantatur solo, solo cedit has increasingly been relied upon by litigants as a shield to establish claims of possession through physical acts upon land, thereby exposing potential purchasers who f...
ENK Danquah-Acheampong, LLM, BL, LL.B. Lawyer | Legal Researcher | Author
General
Our people are being humiliated, ‘insulted’, marginalized, deprived of their lands- Ga-Dangme petition Akufo-Addo
Ga-Dangme Lands Administration (GDLA) is an autonomous and a self–governing organization.
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General
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 Esq.
Election Petition
2020 Election Petition not novel
Lest we forget, the 2020 Election Petition is not novel. It appears to be a rehashed of the 2012 Election Petition. Aside the swapping of roles, the key issue and actors remain the same: Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Electoral Commission and...
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Opinion
Land Management as a component of Sustainable Development: The role of traditional leadership in the Kumasi Traditional Area
A lecture delivered at the KNUST Law Faculty on 23rd March, 2023
Mariam Agyeman Gyasi Jawhary
Business
Execution of shares in Ghana: A Practitioner’s Guide
. The constitution must also specifically prohibit the separation of the legal and equitable interests in shares and by so doing out rightly prohibit the acquisition of any interest once there is a total disregard and non-compliance with th...
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Courts
Daniel Ofori vs. Ecobank Ghana Limited and 2 Others Revisited
“From the totality of the evidence before us and the application of the relevant law, the court holds that, the Respondent is entitled to monthly compounded interest on its principal investment sum of Gh¢6,162,240.00, calculated at a monthl...
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General
Find ways to deal with landowners threatening to sell state lands – Minister to U/W Region Lands Commission
They were sworn into office by the supervising Wa High Court judge, Justice Yussif Assibey.
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Look at Acts with a lot of scrutiny – Former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo
She chaired the launch of Justice Alexander Osei Tutu’s book; Essential Themes in Land Law and Customary Law at the Law Court Complex in Accra.
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Admission of 10 failed students was in the interest of the Ghana School of Law
"As I have done consistently, save as I admitted the 10 students in addition to the 1045 students for the 2020/2021 academic year, same was not done for any personal or pecuniary interest but in the best interest of the School.”
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Supreme Court News
Ghana Supreme Court Bolsters Mining Stability, Rebuffs Local Landowners Claims Against Newmont
The ruling is expected to bring a level of predictability to the Ghanaian mining landscape, which has seen increasing friction between local communities and large-scale miners. By affirming that the Minister of Mines must act as the primary...
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Building Your own Legal Empire: Dare to be Different -Lawyer Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang writes
I remember at the Faculty of Law University of Ghana at our time, the most popular electives were Trade and Investment Law, Commercial Law, Private International Law. However, I chose with few others to study Natural Resources Law.
Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang, Former Director of the Ghana School of Law
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...
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Europe
Conveyancing giant making £5m a year in client account interest
O’Neill Patient Solicitors LLP, based in the north west, reported an operating profit of £2.8m in its full-year results for 2024. This followed a 2023 year in which the business reported an operating loss of £1.3m.
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Courts
$2.3M oil contract dispute between Dram Oil and Alfapetro adjourned to October 13
The adjournment follows a request from Alfapetro’s legal team, who informed the court a day prior to trial that lead counsel, Ace Anan Ankomah, was out of the country and unable to appear. The adjournment follows a request from Alfapetro’s...
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General
Full Speech by The Attorney-General of Ghana at the 2023 Ghana Bar Conference
When I look back at certain cases whose outcomes I consider undesirable, regardless of my own views on the questions being judged in them, I come to the conclusion that, we have in this country a fiercely independent Judiciary in which all...
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Access to justice: Law Professor advocates for creation of national legal portal
He is particularly calling for the creation of a single national legal portal with a supporting app, that will provide access to “Ghanaian laws, judicial decisions and relevant information on access to justice.”
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