Hohoe (V/R), June 10, GNA – The Hohoe Circuit Court has sentenced a 27-year-old unemployed man, Mohammed Rafiu, to four years’ imprisonment for stealing musical instruments belonging to a church at Hohoe. Rafiu pleaded guilty to charges of unlawful entry and stealing when he appeared before the court on Monday, June 8. Inspector Felix Kwao, […]
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Introduction Last year, a friend from law school approached me with what he considered a promising business idea. He explained that he had another friend with the financial resources to establish an organization that would fund litigation. The model, as he described it, was simple enough. The organization would identify individuals with potentially strong legal
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HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE SEDINAM AWO KWADAM (MRS.)* 5TH APRIL 2026 “The opportunity to stand between power and vulnerability, between order and disorder, between right and wrong.” – Honourable Chief Justice Paul Baffoe Bonnie. My learned friends, I bring you warm greetings this Easter season, for this is a time of sacrifice. Indeed, this season,
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THE LAWYER’S TRIAL: WHY “LAWYER SHAMING” REVEALS MORE ABOUT THEM THAN ABOUT YOU HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE SEDINAM AWO KWADAM (MRS.)* 27th March, 2026. From my study to you, a reflection born of years of observation, experience, and a deep love for this noble profession. Every year, as the ceremonial robes are donned and the
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HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE SEDINAM AWO KWADAM (MRS.)* 2nd January, 2026. ABSTRACT A sophisticated and troubling procedural phenomenon is metastasizing within Ghana’s civil justice system: the strategic exploitation of the audi alteram partem rule to invalidate lawfully obtained judgments. This paper identifies a pervasive pattern wherein litigants, typically defendants who have been duly served, whether by personal
1 Introduction The forcible apprehension of a sitting head of state on foreign soil by another state represents one of the most severe tests of the contemporary international legal order. On 3 January 2026, the United States announced that its forces had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during a military operation conducted within the territory
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LEGAL EDUCATION REFORM BILL, 2025 MEMORANDUM The object of the Bill is to establish the Council for Legal Education and Training to regulate professional legal education in Ghana and provide the curriculum and standards for legal education. When Ghana attained independence from British colonial rule in 1957, the path to the legal profession in terms
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LAWS WITHOUT TEETH: THE CRISIS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT IN GHANA BY ADDAE GYIMAH LAWRENCE LLB CANDIDATE (LEVEL 400) +233240155364: larrywhyte21@gmail.com VOLUME 1 (CHILD LABOR LAWS) In Ghana, laws roar on paper but whisper in practice. An academic work exposing the gap between what the law says and what the people see. PREFACE The rule of
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STATEMENT BY CHIEF JUSTICE GERTRUDE SACKEY TORKORNOO Good afternoon, respected citizens, and honorable members of the media. Today, I have requested the privilege of making a Statement to the nation for four reasons. Historic Process The first reason is that the removal process that I am involved in as Chief Justice, is historic. In all of
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A painter working on the Bank of Ghana building at Ridge in Accra has been remanded into police custody for stealing quantities of assorted copper cables, valued at GHC1,035,500. Appearing at an Accra Circuit Court, Ahmed Mohammed Lawal was nabbed after CCTV camera was reviewed. Lawal has pleaded not guilty on charges of unlawful entry
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