The High Court in Accra presided over by Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe has said the trial of former Deputy Minister for Finance Dr Cassiel Ato Forson will not travel beyond May 31. Earlier, the Court had fixed May 3, 2024, for judgment but that will no longer hold following recent developments. Dr Forson, the current […]
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State Prosecutors have closed their case in the case in which Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Menzgold Ghana Limited, Nana Appiah Mensah is standing trial for defrauding customers in the sum of over GHc340 million. This was after the lawyers of Nana Appiah Mensah also known as NAM1 concluded their cross-examination of ASP Charles Nyarko,
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The former spokesperson for the New Force Movement, Shalimar Abbiusi is demanding one million dollars as compensation from Ghana for what she described as violations of her human rights against Ghana. Shalimar Abbiusi in an action filed by her lawyers led by Francis Xavier Sosu at the international ECOWAS court on January 23, 2024, is
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A Businessman, who assumed the role as family head and collected his late brother’s GHC206, 212.65 entitlement from the Ghana Police Service, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Kwame Tengey is said to have told his late brother’s three children that he was going to assist them to collect
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The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assented to law an Act of Parliament that prohibits the payment of compound interest by the state in transactions entered into by public officers on behalf of the state. The Contracts (Amendment) Act, 2023 (Act 1114), sponsored by the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, in
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Kofi Sakyi, a taxi driver, who absconded with his employer’s taxi valued GHC75,000 has been sentenced to 60 months imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Sakyi, aka, Mosquito, was sentenced after the court found him guilty on the charge of stealing at the end of the trial. The court, presided over by Mr Isaac Addo,
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An Accra Circuit Court has remanded three drivers who allegedly conspired to rob and kidnap a student. Christopher Adjetey, Bernard Aminamah and Aziz Abu, alias Aziz Father, have denied the various offences. They will be brought before the Court presided over by Mr Jojo Hagan on March 26, 2024. Meanwhile, one Emmanuel believed to be
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Donald Trump was handed a last-minute reprieve in court on Monday, when a New York court allowed him to post a reduced bond of $175m to delay enforcement of a $464m fraud penalty. The former president’s lawyers had argued it would be “impossible” to secure a bond for the full amount. The appeals court gave
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The Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson, has expressed concern about the passage of the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill by Ghana’s Parliament. The British Virgin Islands-based billionaire described the bill as a backslide on human rights and an economic disaster. He posted on his X
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The Director of the Ghana School of Law (GSL), Barima Yaw Kodie Oppong, has said that many legal practitioners in the country render their services for free even when they have to be paid. Speaking on JoyNews’ The Law, he explained that this is because in Ghana some clients do not pay for the services
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