The GaDangme Council has clarified that the relationship between a traditional ga priest and the 12-year-old girl is just a betrothal and not a marriage. Nuumo Borketey Laweh XXXIII, the 63-year-old Gborbu Wulomo, received criticism when a video surfaced online showing him in a marriage ceremony with a 12-year-old girl, Naa Okromo. The traditional ceremony, […]
A lawyer accused of using his law firm as “a personal gold mine” has been disbarred after he admitted stealing more than $1 million from the entity. The Appellate Division’s First Judicial Department of the New York Supreme Court disbarred lawyer Arthur G. Cohen in a March 26 opinion noted by the Legal Profession Blog.
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A suspended criminal court judge has been booked into a Memphis, Tennessee, jail after she tested positive for cocaine while awaiting a trial on charges of coercing a witness and harassment. Judge Roy Morgan of Tennessee revoked bond for Judge A. Melissa Boyd of Shelby County, Tennessee, on Wednesday, report the Associated Press and the
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Lawyers of Parliament have formally requested the Chief Justice to fast-track track expedited hearing of two pending cases that relate to the Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, also known as the anti-LGBTQI+ Bill. The request which was in the form of a petition filed on Friday, March 28, by Sory@Law, Barristers and Solicitors
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The Managing Partner at Sory @ Law, Thaddeus Sory, has criticized recent directives by the Chief Justice to the Supreme Court (SC) Registrar on fixing of dates for hearing cases. While describing the directives from the Chief Justice as “illegal” and one that has “no legal basis,” he also said, the directives “are unnecessary” and
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The Judicial Service through the Judicial Secretary (JS), Justice Cyra Pamela C. A Koranteng has instructed registrars of all the courts to shy away from publishing inactive cases in newspapers. The move is part of reforms to adopt technology and make the judicial service activities accessible to the general public. A circular dated March 21,
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Professor Justice Sir Dennis Dominic Adjei, Judge of the African Court, has recommended the enactment of laws in Ghana to make some of the offences committed on social media universal crimes. “If it is a universal offence, irrespective of where it is committed, you can be arrested and prosecuted. The state should also lobby for
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An Accra Circuit Court has fined a 22-year-old driver 100 penalty units, or GHC1,200.00, for stealing a banker’s tricycle worth GHC14,000.00. Eric Ofosu Mensah was found guilty and sentenced accordingly. The court, presided over by Mrs Kizita Naa Koowaa Quarshie, said Mensah would serve a six-month jail term in hard labour if he defaulted on
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A Tarkwa circuit court has sentenced Albert Ankomah, a 24 -year-old small scale miner, to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour for stealing. Ankomah, popularly known as ‘Paa Yaw or Simple,’ broke into two homes and made away with mobile phones and other household items. He pleaded guilty after being charged with causing unlawful damage, unlawful entry
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Daniel Kuatusah, a professional teacher at the Akatsi RC Basic School, has been jailed 12 years in hard labour for defiling a 13-year-old junior high school girl. Kuatusah, 30, who taught Basic Design and Technology before his arrest, was sentenced by the Sogakope Circuit Court on Tuesday, March 26, charged with defilement of a child
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