The Justice of the Adentan High Court 1, Her Ladyship Enyonam Adinyira has called for the scrapping of legal vacation provided in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court rules. Her Ladyship Enyonam Adinyira who sits in a court inundated with cases and is a pilot court for the Court shift system introduced […]
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South Africa appointed its first female chief justice on Thursday. President Cyril Ramaphosa named Mandisa Maya, the current deputy chief justice, as the country’s new most senior judge. Her term is due to start on Sept. 1, when she will replace Chief Justice Raymond Zondo as the head of the apex Constitutional Court. Zondo is
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A Sierra Leone court found 11 people guilty of treason and other offences following what authorities have called an attempted coup, with their leader sentenced to almost 200 years in prison, a judiciary spokesman said Tuesday. In November, dozens of gunmen broke into the country’s armoury and into a prison where the majority of the
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The Tumu Magistrate Court in the Sissala East Municipality of the Upper West Region has ordered four individuals into custody on charges of allegedly robbing a mobile money vendor. The suspects have been under police watch in Tumu due to a series of robberies targeting commuters in the Sissala East Municipality. Their apprehension was the
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Restaurant patrons who order chicken wings marketed as “boneless” can’t expect them to actually be boneless, according to a Thursday ruling from the Ohio Supreme Court. The decision comes in the case of Michael Berkheimer, who in 2016 was eating his usual order — boneless wings with parmesan garlic sauce — at an Ohio restaurant
The Office of the Special Prosecutor has received a petition from the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa regarding the controversial $34 million ambulance spare parts deal approved by former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. Mr Ablakwa alleged that Ofori-Atta and former Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu of conspiring with a private company, Service
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Four (4) workers of Muffin Farms, a livestock agribusiness company in Obuasi are currently before the Obuasi circuit court presided over by Justice Mark Tairima Diboro for stealing an undisclosed amount from the company. The accused persons are Alex Degbadzor the manager of the company, Victoria Owusu Konadu the sales manager, Emmanuel Tabiese the meat-cutting
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A Former Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana Sophia Akuffo has accused the management of Social Security and National Insurance Insurance Trust (SSNIT) of deliberately running down the hotels that it wanted to sell just to reduce their value and in the end, distribute among themselves. This, she said, has been the story of
H.E NANA ADDO DANKWA AKUFO-ADDO, PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA, JUBILEE HOUSE, ACCRA. Your Excellency, ADVISORY OPINION ON THE CRIMINAL OFFENCES (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2023 (ANTI-WITCHCRAFT BILL) TO HIS EXCELLENCY, THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA 1. INTRODUCTION We bring you warm greetings from members and staff of the Commission on Human Rights and
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The Supreme Court has declared as constitutional the law which prohibits unnatural carnal knowledge such as anal sex. In a unanimous decision on Wednesday [July 24, 2024], a seven-member panel of the court dismissed a writ challenging the constitutionality of Section 104 (1) (b) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29). The court, presided
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