RE: COMPENSATION FOR WRONGFUL CONVICTION AND IMPRISONMENT: A REVIEW OF GHANA’S CRIMINAL LAW IN THE CASE OF DANIEL AYAREBA V ATTORNEY GENERAL BY FELIX ANTWI OPPONG1 GRATITUDE Rebecca Akosua Bawa, for reviewing this work. INTRODUCTION In his article published on January 13 2025, Oswald K. Azumah reviewed the case of Daniel Ayareba v […]
Sunday evening, OpenAI launched ‘deep research’ in ChatGPT, that conducts multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks. It accomplishes in minutes what would take a human many hours. From OpenAI, …[Yo]u give it a prompt, and ChatGPT will find, analyze, and synthesize hundreds of online sources to create a comprehensive report at the level
The decision to pursue a judicial career is frequently made at different stages in an individual’s life. Irrespective of when this decision is made, one critical factor that girds it is the individual’s passion for justice. Initially, the decision may arise prior to entering law school, as one recognizes that an aspiration to become a
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By Her Honour Judge Sedinam Awo Kwadam (Mrs.), Circuit Court 7 Accra, Ghana. LLM. Candidate, International Criminal Law and Justice, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Accra, Ghana. 25th January, 2025. ABSTRACT Article 42 of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana guarantees universal adult suffrage, ensuring that all citizens aged
A legal practitioner and a real estate expert, Victor Owusu Asante has advised the public to do the necessary due diligence when acquiring lands in Ghana to free themselves from the numerous litigation bedeviling the sector. He, however, advised prospective buyers to consult real estate lawyers to conduct the necessary searches for them while cautioning
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Donald Trump has vowed to end automatic citizenship for anyone born in the US In one of his first acts as the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at ending “birthright citizenship” – meaning the automatic American citizenship that is granted to anyone born in the country. It’s
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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
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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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
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
