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  OPERATION RECOVER ALL LOOT (ORAL): IS IT RECOGNISED UNDER GHANAIAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM?

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 OPERATION RECOVER ALL LOOT (ORAL): IS IT RECOGNISED UNDER GHANAIAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM?   By Goodnuff Appiah Larbi[1] Legal Researcher Email: aappiahlarbi@gmail.com   & Emmanuella A. O. Kwatia[2] Email: ellakwatia233@gmail.com     Abstract Corruption has been a pervasive and debilitating scourge on the Ghanaian economy. Successive governments have witnessed officials ascend to power, misappropriate public […]

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Privatisation or private participation in ECG?: Considerations

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Privatisation or private participation in ECG?: Considerations By: Ferdinand  D. ADADZI There are many challenges facing us as a country, which the expectation is that the new government will urgently address. One that seems to be quite immediate is the power supply challenges, which are now topical due to the news that scheduled maintenance of

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Compensation for wrongful conviction and imprisonment: A review of Ghana’s criminal law in the case of Daniel Ayareba v Attorney General

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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

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Assessment of Damages – By Justice Yaw Appau Justice of the Court of Appeal (As he was then)

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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

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Exam Troubles: Your Rights in Cases of Cancellation and Collusion

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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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GHANA’S JURY SYSTEM ON TRIAL – A THESIS BY SIR JUSTICE DOMINIC ADJEI

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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.

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Ghana’s ADR Progression – The Missing Place of Chiefs

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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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20 lessons and pieces of advice from the December 7, 2024 elections – H. Kwasi Prempeh writes

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20 lessons and pieces of advice from the December 7, 2024 elections – H. Kwasi Prempeh writes Money can’t buy love. Or, you got played! Pride comes before a fall. There is a little Kwaku Ananse in every Ghanaian voter; don’t underestimate our capacity to repay trickery with trickery. Mind your language and attitude; we

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PROPHECIES AND OPINION POLLS DURING ELECTIONS: ARE THERE ANY LIMITATIONS?

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By: Goodnuff Appiah Larbi (BL candidate and Legal Researcher) Introduction Democracy prevails when all citizens can participate directly in decision making through the power of voting to select the government through free and fair elections or to take a decision in a referendum. In democratic societies such as ours, elections represent a fulcrum of governance,

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AFRICA’S BETRAYAL OF THE ICC: FROM FOUNDING SUPPORT AND COOPERATION TO A STRATEGIC REJECTION

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Author: Her Honour Judge Sedinam Awo Kwadam (Mrs.) Circuit Court 2 Adentan, Accra Ghana. LLM Candidate, International Criminal Law and Justice, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Accra, Ghana.   Date: 25th November, 2024     AFRICA’S BETRAYAL OF THE ICC: FROM FOUNDING SUPPORT AND COOPERATION TO A STRATEGIC REJECTION Abstract This paper

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