After a years-long legal saga, Wikileaks says that founder Julian Assange has left the UK after reaching a deal with US authorities that will see him plead guilty to criminal charges and go free. Assange, 52, was charged with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information. For years, the US has argued that the […]
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The High Court in Accra has issued a trial warrant for an 18-year-old young offender involved in the ongoing Kasoa ritual murder case. This order mandates that the accused be kept in Nsawam prison’s custody instead of a police cell due to allegations of misconduct at the police cells. The 18-year-old, the second accused, is
Kwame Blay, son of the former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, has threatened to sue Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu. The threat comes in the wake of Ablakwa’s allegations that the Blay family is involved in an illegal attempt to acquire land from the Labadi
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Richard Jakpa, the businessman in the trial of the Minority Leader, has told the Accra High Court that he drew the battle line and declared war with the Attorney-General after the court did not rule in his favour after his submission of no case. Answering questions under the cross-examination of the Director of Public Prosecutions
THE Copyright Office of Ghana has urged the gospel music group, Team Eternity Ghana, to resolve any copyright disputes related to their hit single, Defe Defe, amicably in order to avoid legal repercussions. Team Eternity Ghana has been accused of alleged ‘song theft’ by Kwame Mickey, the executive producer for Hallelujah Voices’ Defe Defe which
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The trial of the case involving Yahuza Osumanu, a self-proclaimed businessman charged with robbing former 2nd Lady, Mrs. Matilda Yaaba Amissah-Arthur, will commence in the new legal year. This follows the completion of the Case Management Conference (CMC) on Thursday, June 20, 2024. Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, the presiding judge, indicated that the parties should
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Lawyers and government agents from five English-speaking countries have converged in Accra to undergo training on how to use the Electronic Case Management System (ECMS) of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice (CCJ). Specifically, the representatives from Ghana, Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria will be trained on how to file and serve documents electronically
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An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a self-acclaimed chief and businessman to 15 months imprisonment for fraudulent land transaction. Nii Kotey Susubribi, aka, Nii Isaac or Kotey Nii Quaye, who claims to be chief of Abehenase, near Amasaman, has been found guilty on the charges of threat of death and fraudulent transaction. The Court presided
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The trial judge in the Santrokofi, Akpafu, Likpe, and Lolobi (SALL) case, Justice Owoahene Acheampong, has expressed displeasure over the absence of Justin Amenuvor, the lawyer for the Electoral Commission (EC). The hearing involved an application by Philip Jimanor, the lawyer for the petitioners, seeking permission to file amended replies to answers from both the
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A five-member panel of the Supreme Court presided over by the Chief Justice, Gertrude Sackey Torkornoo, has reaffirmed the Court of Appeal’s decision for the trial of Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni and two others not to start afresh. The unanimous decision of the apex Court was that the Court of Appeal was right in its
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