An alternative healer has been found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter following the death of a woman at one of his workshops. Hongchi Xiao, 61, of Cloudbreak in California, was convicted after 71-year-old Danielle Carr-Gomm died from complications related to diabetes in 2016. The jury at Winchester Crown Court was told she had stopped taking […]
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Seven years and six months after his death, the family of 15-year-old Kervin Kofi Moses has now realised justice, following the High Court’s declaration that Achimota School was negligent by failing to provide the residential General Arts student with proper medical care, a situation which ultimately resulted in his death. “It is my conclusion that
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An Accra High Court has granted a motion for a joinder filed by Dram Oil, an Oil Trading Company Limited, for Vihama Energy Limited to be joined in an ongoing litigation at a Commercial Division of the court. Dram Oil and Trading Limited dragged auditing firm, Deloitte and Touche to the Commercial Division of the
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Facts: In 1928 the claimant, Mrs Donoghue argued that she had suffered shock and gastroenteritis (upset stomach) after drinking ginger beer from an opaque bottle out of which a decomposing snail had fallen when the dregs were poured. A friend had bought her the drink and so the claimant was unable to sue in her
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Facts: The defendants, a local authority had failed to ensure that building work complied with the plans, and as a result the building had inadequate foundations. The claimant, a tenant who had leased the property after it had changed hands many times, claimed that the damage to the property threatened health and safety and sued
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