Carruthers Tetteh: Visually-impaired lawyer appointed UCC lecturer Mr. Tetteh in 2022, was among the 844 lawyers who were called to the Bar in November of that year. Visually-impaired lawyer, Carruthers Tetteh has been appointed a lecturer at the University of Cape Coast Faculty of Law – making it the faculty’s first historic appointment of […]
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A justice at the Court of Appeal, Justice Samuel Obeng Diawuo is imploring lawyers not to get caught up in the craze of social and traditional media advertising. Rules governing the professional conduct and etiquette of lawyers in Ghana forbid the direct and indirect advertising of services. In some instances, the General Legal Council has
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A Tarkwa Circuit Court has sentenced a 25- year-old unemployed, Adjei Sowah, to five years imprisonment in hard labour for stealing electrical cables worth GH₵10,600. Sowah denied causing unlawful damage, unlawful entry and stealing but at the end of the trial he was found guilty of the offence. Police Chief Inspector Joseph Lartey, who led
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ICJ hears South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over Gaza war South Africa accuses Israel of violating the UN’s 1948 Genocide Convention, established in the wake of the Holocaust. Video Duration 03 minutes 04 seconds Israel faces accusations that it is subjecting Palestinians in Gaza to genocidal acts, as the International Court of Justice
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Chief Justice Roberts, In Year-End Report, Says AI Won’t Make Judges Obsolete, But Will Transform their Work Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. used his year-end report to weigh in on the impact of artificial intelligence on the legal profession, saying he does not believe AI will replace human judges. “As 2023 draws to a close
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Ex-Suriname president convicted in killings ordered to report to prison-prosecutor Former Surinamese President Desi Bouterse, whose conviction for involvement in the killing of 15 people more than four decades ago was upheld in December, must report to a jail to serve his sentence, the public prosecutor said on Wednesday. A three-judge panel affirmed the convictions
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Post Office scandal explained: What the Horizon saga is all about Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the government will bring in a new law to “swiftly exonerate and compensate victims” of the Post Office scandal. More than 900 workers were prosecuted after faulty software wrongly made it look like money was missing. Their case
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The US has made the long-awaited decision to allow Bitcoin to be part of mainstream investing funds. It has approved what are known as spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which can be purchased by anyone from pension funds to ordinary investors. The announcement from the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission was accompanied by
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Liberian former chief justice Gloria Musu-Scott. (African women in law) Liberian former chief justice Gloria Musu-Scott and three other family members have been found guilty of murder. After a gruelling five-months trial, the jury in the trial of Liberian former chief justice Gloria Musu-Scott reached its verdict on 21 December, finding Musu-Scott and three other
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No, when the president does it, that doesn’t make it legal. We’ve been through this before. This morning, Donald Trump travelled to DC to attend oral argument at the Circuit Court hearing on his presidential immunity claims. It’s the first hearing he’s attended in the election interference case, and he may well regret his decision
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