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Pakistan PM To Appear Before Anti-Graft Probe Team
Pakistan's prime minister will appear before an anti-corruption investigation commission over allegations against his family, a government minister said Sunday. Nawaz Sharif and his children are...
Georgina Wood Rejected Kufuor’s Offer In Tsikata’s Trial
It has emerged that the immediate past Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood turned down an offer from former President John Agyekum Kufuor to become a Supreme Court Judge in order to be part of a...
Group Against Islamic Law Clashes With Counterprotesters
A right-wing group protesting Islamic law, or Sharia, on Saturday clashed with counterdemonstrators in Seattle, Minneapolis and other cities. ACT for America organized the marches in more than two...
Thirty-One Prisoners Granted Bail
Thirty-One Prisoners remanded for years at the Winneba Prison and Ankaful Prison Annex in the Central Region, were on Friday granted bail after three courts had heard their cases under the 'Justice...
Ghana Advocacy Group Condemns Mob Justice
The Ghana Advocacy Group has called for an immediate action against mob justice in the country and also commiserates with family of Major Maxwell Mahama who got lynched by some residents of...
Lawyer Okudzeto Deserves A Ban Just Like Sosu For Advertising Firm
The Convener of a pressure group that calls itself National Interest (UNI), Senyo Korsi has taken a swipe at senior lawyer, Sam Okudzeto, over the ban of lawyer Xavier Sosu. Mr. Okudzeto, who is a...
Let’s Protect Our Planet
There is the need for speedy implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change if the world’s marine environment, which is on the verge of destruction as a result of climate change, is to be...
I Owe My Success To the Power of Prayer
Mrs Georgina Wood, who retired today as Ghana’s longest serving Chief Justice, has attributed her outstanding stewardship to the power of prayer, and thus urged the leaders of the nation to draw...
61-Year-Old Murder Suspect Freed After 6 Years In Jail
A 61-year-old man who was arrested in 2011 for allegedly murdering his wife has been freed under the Justice For All programme. Kwasi Ofori was granted his freedom after more than six years on remand...
Eschew Acts of Mob Justice — Former Chief Justice Tells Ghanaians
Mrs Justice Georgina Wood, has bowed out of office as Chief Justice after 47 years in public office, with a call on Ghanaians to eschew acts of mob justice. Mrs Justice Wood, whose term in office...
Injunction Slapped On University of Education Governing Council
An order of interlocutory injunction has been issued against the University of Education, Winneba restraining the supposed Principal Officers appointed by the defunct Governing Council from holding...
My Suspension Is Unconstitutional – Lawyer Sosu Tells Court
Human rights lawyer, Francis Xavier Sosu has in suit described the decision to suspend him for three years for advertising as discriminatory. The suit which was filed Wednesday, June 7, 2017, is also...
‘Francis-Xavier Sosu Is Being Punished By God’ – Client
A client who reported now-suspended private legal practitioner Francis-Xavier Sosu to the General Legal Council (GLC), has said that the lawyer’s plight is a punishment from God. Francis Agyare,...
The Lawyer and the Rule Against Advertising [Article]
A few years ago, I had the privilege of being a part of an international conference in Accra. At one of the group sessions, the issue of lawyer advertising came up. I argued forcefully against the...
Chief Justice Performed ‘creditably’ – Emile Short
A former boss of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile Short, has said the outgoing Chief Justice performed “creditably” in her 10-year role as head of...
The Full Story, Hidden Facts and Questions
On one blistering afternoon in December 2011, in a law office in Ampomah Estates near Oyibi, there was a meeting of two men both named Francis. The older Francis was an ex-convict who had been...
YES-Ghana Drags US-Based NGO To Court
Cooperative Housing Foundation, a US-based NGO operating in Ghana as Global Communities, has been dragged to the Human Rights Court to show cause why its management, assigns and privies should not be...
Sosu Vs Legal Council: Lawyers Must Be Allowed To Advertise
A legal practitioner has described as a “little outmoded” the code that prevents lawyers from touting or advertising. Martin Kpebu believes in the current technological dispensation where social...
‘Dreamer’ Faces New Threat of Deportation Under Trump
She was once the face of the heated debate on immigration, the child of Mexicans who entered the United States illegally yet went on to became a promising student before a minor run-in with the...