The Speaker of Parliament is enjoined under the 1992 Constitution to obey and enforce the decisions and orders of the Supreme Court following the Court’s unanimous dismissal of his application on 30 October 2024 to set aside the processes and proceedings in the suit brought by Alexander Afenyo Markin (the Majority Leader) against him and […]
BY: HER HONOUR JUDGE SEDINAM AWO KWADAM (MRS.), CIRCUIT COURT 2, ADENTAN, ACCRA. AND EMMANUEL BABUBOA ESQ., PRIVATE LEGAL PRACTITIONER. INSPIRED BY JOHN BAPTIST AYEDZE ESQ.,PRIVATE LEGAL PRACTITIONER, LECTURER, UPSA LAW SCHOOL, ACCRA, GHANA. DATE: 16TH OCTOBER, 2024. ABSTRACT The right to a fair trial is enshrined in
The notion of ownerless land in Ghana has long been dispelled. Therefore in present day Ghana, every land has an owner. The laws of Ghana give recognition to stool or skin, family or clan, the state, individuals or juristic persons as entities that can own land in Ghana. The manner of dealing with any land
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THE CIRCUIT COURT’S JURISDICTION IN GHANAIAN LAND DISPUTES: A JURISDICTION AT LARGE. BY HER HONOUR JUDGE SEDINAM AWO KWADAM (Mrs.), CIRCUIT COURT 2, ADENTAN-ACCRA, 18th March, 2024. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Abstract Introduction I. The Question of Jurisdiction ● The Recurring Jurisdictional Challenge ● Focus of the Paper II. The Relevant Law ● Section 42(1)(a)
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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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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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We tend to act in these matters as if we inhabit this legal universe alone or do not share a common legal tradition with many other countries. In every one of those countries, where the Constitution names only a minimum but is silent on the upper limit of the apex court, the Constitution either says
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Ahead of the December 2024 elections, heightened mistrust in state institutions and unresolved tensions threaten to disrupt the polls. On 7 December, Ghanaians will vote for a new president and 275 Members of Parliament. This will be the country’s ninth consecutive election since returning to constitutional rule in 1992. Ghana is renowned in West Africa
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16th May, 2024 A: Introduction & background facts “[I]f we were so unfortunate as to get for our Chief Justice a cynical, mischievous and obstinate individual who also had the ear of the President, at least, a sizeable section of the Judiciary could be subjected to mayhem, with a not too remote consequence of
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Prof. Nyarkotey has shown legal scholarship in Natural Medicine. As a legal researcher and ardent reader, when I was initially given this book to read, I set a goal for myself to finish it to learn what the author wanted his readers to know about Naturopathic Medicine and the law. Prof Nyarkotey Obu is without
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