The Judicial Service will next week open small claim debt recovery courts to redeem monies borrowed by customers from financial institutions. This is to reduce the number of cases before the courts in the shift system. Mrs Gertrude Torkornoo, the Chief Justice (CJ), said this during a meeting with the Judicial Press Corps. She said […]
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About 71,781 High Court cases have been filed through the electronic-justice (e-justice) system as of July 2024, the Judicial Service of Ghana has said. And out of the total number of 468 courts in the country, 116 of them have been automated with a direct transcription system, bringing the total number of automated courts across
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A Circuit Court at Torkor, near Denu in the Ketu South Municipality has granted bail to three staffers of Ketu North Municipal Hospital, who were on remand for extortion and attempt to extort. They were granted bail on Friday in the sum of GHS 200,000 each with two sureties. The trio, Collins Asilevi, a laboratory
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Multifaceted Ghanaian celebrity Kwadwo Nkansah known popularly as Lilwin has finally apologised to actress Martha Ankomah for denigrating her brand. It will be recalled that Lilwin in a video that went viral on social media used some unprintable words on the person of Martha Ankomah questioning her prominence in the movie industry, among others. The
On July 10, 2024, Justice Nana Brew of the High Court dismissed an application for judicial review filed by George Smith-Graham, a former director of UMB Bank, against the Bank of Ghana (BoG). The case stemmed from events beginning on July 22, 2022, when the BoG issued a directive under the Banks and Specialised Deposit-Taking
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The Ho High Court has dismissed a motion to transfer a negligence case against the Aflao Central Hospital and two of its nurses to the Denu High Court. The court, presided over by Justice Yaw Owoahene-Acheampong, upheld the argument by counsel for the plaintiffs, Christian Lebrecht Malm-Hesse, that the Ho High Court has jurisdiction over
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A 53-year-old farmer, Bashiru Gambo, who attempted to offer his son for sale, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour by the Tarkwa Circuit Court. He was charged for trading of person contrary to section 2 (1) of the Human Trafficking Act 694 of 2005, pleaded guilty to the offence and asked the
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A Lawyer Joseph Kwow Addo Sam has been put before the Circuit Court in Achimota for allegedly forging the Will of one Alhaji Abdulai Salia who is deceased. He faces four counts of conspiracy, forging documents, altering forged documents and perjury. The Presiding Judge Akosua Anokyewaa Adjepong admitted him to bail in the sum of
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The General Jurisdiction 7 of the High Court in the case of Mohammed Mustapha v Attorney-General, Ministry of Health & 2 Ors. (Suit No. GJ/1043/2020) has awarded damages of GH¢3million cedis to one Mohammed Mustapha against the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ridge, the Ministry of Health, the Health Ministry and the Attorney-General for negligently causing
Dancehall entertainer Vybz Kartel, born Adidja Palmer, and his three co-accused were set free on Wednesday after Jamaica’s Court of Appeal decided against retrying them for the 2011 murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams. The three-judge panel, comprising Justices Marva McDonald-Bishop, Paulette Williams, and David Fraser, delivered the unanimous decision. Before the ruling, an abbreviated summary
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