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Explainer: Understanding the Contractual Capacity of Minors in Ghana

What is Capacity? Capacity is power to create or enter into a legal relation under the same circumstances in which a normal person would have the power to create or enter into such a relation; specifically, the satisfaction of a legal qualification, such as legal age or soundness of mind, that determines one’s ability to sue […]

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Docket: Offence of Causing Harm Under Section 69 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29)

DEFINITIONS: Harm: Is bodily hurt, disease or disorder, temporary or permanent -Section 1 of Act 29 Unlawful Harm: Harm caused intentionally or negligently without justification under chapter 1 of part 2 (Justifiable force and harm) – Section 76 of Act 29 Intention under Section 11 applies.  Negligence – both Section 12 and Section 51 apply.

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Explainer – The Basic Law of Partnerships in Ghana

What is a partnership?:  Partnership is a business entity regulated by the Incorporated Private Partnership Act, 1962 (Act 152). Partnership is a registered association of at least two but not exceeding twenty individuals carrying on business for the purpose of making profits. No body corporate can be a member. – Baidoo v Sam – TAYLOR

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