BY: Oswald K. Azumah* ABSTRACT A person charged with a criminal offence is presumed innocent until proven guilty and no person shall be made to suffer punishment unless they have committed a crime. These are salient principles of criminal law. Based on these, criminal law developed to grant compensation to persons wrongfully convicted and […]
By Richard Appiah Kubi* THE HISTORY BEHIND THE NAME KINGMAKER The word Kingmaker appears to be misnomer and some people argue that it should be Chiefmaker since their functions pertain to chiefs: to me it remains in our vocabulary as a reminder of the pristine dignity of our natural rulers as Kings. The Europeans met
THE ROLE OF KINGMAKERS VIS A VIS ENSTOOLMENT/DESTOOLMENT PROCESS OF CHIEFS IN GHANA. Read More »
Paper Presented at Induction Course for Newly Appointed Circuit Judges at the Judicial Training Institute Assessment of Damages is a very wide area of the law. It is very ‘technical’ and covers an important area of civil litigation where there is an alleged civil wrong or an infraction of the law. It permeates almost all civil
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) recently released a press statement on December 30, 2024, announcing the publication of provisional results for candidates who sat the WASSCE in Ghana. Among the statistics shared on page 3 of the document, the details on examination irregularities were particularly alarming: 1. Subject results of 4,108 candidates were cancelled
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A Gender Based Violence Court has sentenced Prosper Kouku, a 23-year-old mason to 12 years imprisonment for defiling a 14-year-old girl. Kouku was charged with defilement. He pleaded not guilty. However, after going through full trial, the court presided over Dora Eshun, found Kouku guilty of defiling the minor. The prosecution, led by Chief Inspector
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A 32-year-old tiler, Stephen Otu, was sentenced to 22 years in prison with hard labor by the Tarkwa Circuit Court for defiling and impregnating a 12-year-old girl. Otu, who is commonly known as Atta, pleaded guilty to the charges and requested leniency from the court. However, presiding Judge Hathia Ama Manu emphasized the need for
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Residents of Kportorgboe, a suburb of Anloga in the Volta Region, were on Saturday thrown into a state of mourning when a restaurant owner was murdered in cold blood allegedly by unknown assailants. The victim, Korkow Dorcas Tettey, believed to be in her 60s, was the owner of a popular restaurant called “The Base” located
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THESIS MASTER OF JUDICIAL STUDIES DUKE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF LAW JUSTICE DENNIS D. ADJEI March 23, 2014 2 Justice Dennis Dominic Adjei* ABSTRACT Civil cases in Ghana are tried by the bench. Criminal cases are also handled by bench trials, except for certain indictable offenses, which may be tried by a judge or jury.
GHANA’S JURY SYSTEM ON TRIAL – A THESIS BY SIR JUSTICE DOMINIC ADJEI Read More »
Christopher Kofi Okyere Sorkpa, a preacher, has been sentenced to five years in prison for damaging the windscreens of five vehicles in Parliament House car park. Sorkpa, 33, appeared before Accra Circuit Court on Friday, where he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit a crime and five counts of causing unlawful damage. The court, presided
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By Kojo Kwarteng On 31st May 2010, Ghana boldly enacted one of the world’s progressive legislations, “The Alternative Dispute Resolution Act, 2010 (Act 798).” The Act was to provide for the settlement of disputes by arbitration, mediation and customary arbitration, to establish an Alternative Resolution Centre and to provide for related matters. Act 798 repealed
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