The Supreme Court concluded only 344 out of the 939 pending cases in the 2022/2023 legal year, leading to a backlog of 595 cases carried over into the 2023/2024 legal year. This was an increase of 181 cases from the 2021/2022 legal year, which saw 799 cases pending, out of which 385 cases were concluded […]
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Nine individuals have been arrested over examination malpractices in the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). The arrests, which include seven teachers occurred in various locations, including Bekwai in the Ashanti Region and Tema in the Greater Accra Region. The examination, which began on Monday, July 8, proceeded peacefully despite prior concerns about the rising
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The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have vehemently debunked police prosecutors’ claims to the court that the GAF refused to produce Captain Abel Nartey, an officer stationed at the Training and Doctrine Command in Teshie, accused of involvement in a recruitment scam amounting to over GHc130k, to assist police investigations. According to the GAF, these “misrepresentations”
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Parliament has passed the National Service Authority Bill, 2024. The object of the bill is to establish the National Service Authority to mobilise and post persons qualified to undertake national service in areas of national priority for national development. If assented to by the President, the bill will also inculcate the values of civic responsibility,
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Our Justice system cannot catch a break. Right in the middle of the case in which our Attorney General has coached a witness in the absence of the defendant’s lawyer and then refused to resign, the Chief Justice has rubbed salt into our collective national wound. In a letter dated 30th June 2024, addressed to
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Martin Kpebu, a private legal practitioner, has described as “bad” the timing and processes for the proposal to appoint new justices to the Supreme Court. Mrs Gertrude Araba Esaba Torkonoo, the Chief Justice, had in a letter dated May 30, 2024, addressed to the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, recommended the appointment of five justices
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Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama says he will not scrap the Office of the Special Prosecutor. Instead, he says he intends to strengthen the office if he is elected as president in the upcoming elections. Mr Mahama said this when he addressed journalists in Accra on Sunday. The OSP was
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Seven years and six months after his death, the family of 15-year-old Kervin Kofi Moses has now realised justice, following the High Court’s declaration that Achimota School was negligent by failing to provide the residential General Arts student with proper medical care, a situation which ultimately resulted in his death. “It is my conclusion that
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The Accra High Court trying nine persons for High Treason has sentenced six persons including three soldiers to death by hanging for plotting to overthrow the incumbent government. They are Donya Kafui, Bright Alan Debrah, Johannes Zikpi, Lance Airforce Corporal Ali Solomon, Corporal Sylvester Akankpewon and Warrant Officer Class Two (WOII) Esther Saan Dekuwine. Meanwhile,
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The Attorney-General (AG), Godfred Yeboah Dame, has affirmed that the proposal to augment the number of justices of the Supreme Court from the standard 15, alongside the Chief Justice, is in line with the constitution and would promote efficient justice delivery. This statement comes in response to the President’s decision to solicit the AG’s counsel
