Three people accused of siphoning GHC 252, 923.92 from the account of Afro Arab Company Limited, a microfinance company, have been hauled to court. At the Dansoman Circuit Court, two out of the three accused persons were present. The two, Michael Kumi Arhin, unemployed, and Michael Assibu, a Finance Manager, have pleaded not guilty to […]
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The Draft Consumer Protection bill is gathering dust at the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) building while draft bills from other ministries move through the legislative processes to parliament and are getting attention. Ghana got its first Consumer Protection Draft Bill in 2006. Four presidents have come and three gone, yet progress has painstakingly
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Police chiefs announce deployment of extra 2,200 riot officers as list of 60 immigration centres circulated online Immigration lawyers have been warned to take extra security measures or stay away from work amid far-right threats to target their firms, with legal groups blaming political attacks on the profession for fuelling abuse. The Law Society and
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The Chief Justice, Her Ladyship Gertrude Torkonoo has opened 12 special courts dedicated to small claims and debt recovery cases. Eight of these courts are located in the Greater Accra Region while four of them are situated in the Ashanti Region. The courts were created following an observation of a spike in small claims cases
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Forty-three-year-old David Blagodzi, farmer, has been convicted by the Jasikan Circuit Court to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour for possessing ammunition without authority. Blagodzi, who appeared before the court, presided over by Mr Michael Johnson Abbey, pleaded guilty to the charge and was convicted on his own plea. The court further ordered that the
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Rulian Shan, the manager of the Chinese firm, along with his sales manager, Ali Yakubu, were detained on Friday, August 2. Four individuals, including three Ghanaians and a Chinese national, have been arrested for tampering with and installing manipulated meters from the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). Wisdom Sewlorm, an agent, received the ECG meters
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Rolls-Royce is to give every employee shares worth about £700 in the company following a revival. The engineering giant announced in an internal memo that it would gift 150 shares to its 42,000 workers worldwide. The news comes after the Derby-based company, which makes jet engines, announced profits of £1.1bn in the first half of
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Does the legal profession still need Latin? For how long? Ad infinitum? My first exposure to this ancient language was in high school In Montreal. On the first school day, I noticed a neighbor friend of mine, Thomas, dejectedly pacing the street. I asked him what the problem was, and he told me his dad
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Our partisan edges are getting sharper and political polarisation is deepening. Nothing is spared these days, not even our courts and the judgements they render. It is quite instructive to observe the partisan commentary after every court decision, the most recent being – The Republic vs. Ato Forson & Others. Victory or defeat or whether
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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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