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BAR Conference: We have saved Ghana over GHC15 trillion in judgment debts – Godfred Dame

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Minister of Justice and Attorney-General, Godfred Dame says the government has worked to avert payments of crippling judgment debts to the tune of fifteen trillion Ghana Cedis since he took office in 2017. Attorney-General Dame noted that the litigations were both in the local and international spaces where the state has increasingly become exposed to […]

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76 persons have been convicted for illegal mining since 2021 – Godfred Dame

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Minister of Justice and Attorney-General (AG), Godfred Yeboah Dame has disclosed that seventy-six individuals including eighteen foreign nationals have been jailed for engaging in illegal mining activities since August 2021. Speaking at this year’s Bar Conference in Kumasi, Mr. Dame averred that the convictions included long-term prison sentences coupled with huge fines. “From August 2021

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GIMPA beats KNUST to be crowned winners of Gertrude Torkonoo Moot Court Competition

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The Faculty of Law team of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) emerged winners of the Gertrude Torkonoo Moot Court Competition by a slim margin of one point, edging out KNUST in classic “host and win style” in the final yesterday, September 8, 2023. GIMPA’s stellar team presented legal arguments in a

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Law Clerk arrested over forged judicial documents

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The Police have arrested a law clerk for allegedly forging High Court orders with suit numbers, marriage and divorce certificates and other documents in Accra. Henry Odartey Lamptey, 39, is said to have forged the signatures of the deputy Judicial Secretary and other judges in Adenta and Cape Coast High Courts among others dissolving marriages.

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Barber in Court over alleged theft of electricity

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A barber, who allegedly stole 44,208 kilowatts of electricity power valued at GH₵28, 218.18, the property of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has been arraigned at an Accra Circuit Court. Mr Kamal Adam, 20 years old, who was charged with stealing and interference with the supplier’s distribution system, meters or equipment, pleaded not guilty.

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Businessman granted bail over alleged visa fraud

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A 36-year-old businessman, who allegedly took $13, 500 from two persons under the pretext of securing them Nicaragua and Mexican visas but failed has been granted bail by an Accra Circuit Court. Mr Nganyu Billy Nfor, a businessman, pleaded not guilty to defrauding by false pretence. The Court presided over by Mr Isaac Addo admitted Nfor

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Father, son sentenced for conspiracy, trespass and stealing teak trees

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Sixty-year-old Edward Worwornyo and his son Senyo Augustus Worwornyo, 30 years old, both herbalists, have been sentenced by the Hohoe Circuit Court for conspiracy to commit crime, trespass and stealing of teak trees. The convicts, who appeared before the court, pleaded not guilty to the charges. They were fully tried, found guilty, convicted and sentenced

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O’Reilly School Murder: Accused remanded for two weeks

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The La District Court has remanded for two weeks, a final-year student at O’Reilly Senior High School, who fatally stabbed a classmate. The student, whose name has been withheld, had been provisionally charged with murder. The court did not accept his plea and ordered him to return on September 19, 2024. The adjournment was to

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High Court restrains Prof. Nyarko-Boampong from holding himself out as UCC VC

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A Cape Coast High Court has granted an injunction filed by John Mevemeo, a resident of Millennium City-Kasoa in the Central Region, against the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Prof. Johnson Nyarko-Boampong. The court’s decision restrains Prof. Nyarko-Boampong from acting as Vice-Chancellor. Mr Mevemeo is challenging the University of Cape Coast’s decision to

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