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    West Blue Ghana Limited has filed a lawsuit against the Attorney-General (AG) and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) at the Commercial Division of the High Court in Accra over the termination of the National Single Window and Integrated Risk Management System (NSW) contract, amounting to over GH¢289 million. …

Former Environment Minister, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has responded to the Attorney General’s Office’s statement for “hard evidence” in relation to the allegations in his report on illegal mining activities in the country. The AG’s office, last week indicated that the accusations in Prof. Frimpong Boateng’s report are empty   and do …

Businesswoman, Diamond Appiah has been rearrested moments after the Circuit Court in Accra had discharged her in an alleged fraudulent land transaction. The Office of the Attorney in a process signed by Mrs Evelyn Keelson, a Chief State Attorney, dropped the charge against her. But moments after she stepped out …

Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata, lead counsel for ousted Assin North Member of Parliament, James Gyakye Quayson had a heated exchange with Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame when the court sat on June 21, 2023 in the criminal trial of the former MP. Tsikata had raised issues on recent comments by the …

An Accra High Court’s order for undercover investigator Anas Aremeyaw Anas to reveal his identity to former Ghana Football Association President, Kwasi Nyantakyi in chambers before testifying in open court wearing a face mask has been declined. Anas cites concerns about his security and safety. Tiger Eye PI, an investigative …

William Ato Essien, Chief Executive Officer of defunct Capital Bank, has taken steps to avoid a custodial sentence over failure to pay a GH¢20 million to the state per agreed timelines following a plea bargain agreement. The Daily Guide newspaper reports on its frontpage of May 11, 2023 that Essien …

The Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has filed an appeal against the High Court’s decision that the criminal trial of the former COCOBOD boss and two others should be heard de novo (afresh). The Attorney General’s grounds of appeal is that the trial judge, Justice Kwasi Anokye Gyimah, “misdirected himself” …

The office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice has asked Justice Clemence Honyenuga, the judge hearing the case of former Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Dr. Stephen Opuni to refer the case to the Chief Justice for a new judge. According to the AG “it is …

The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice has rejected an assertion by the CDD-Ghana that his opinion that the Auditor-General should withdraw the audit report on the government’s COVID-19 expenditure it published amounts to an assault on the Office of the Auditor-General. In a statement issued on February 15, 2023, Godfred Dame said …

Samuel Ampomah, a Ghanaian citizen, has sued the Attorney General, AG, at the Supreme Court pertaining to the restrictions imposed by part 3 of the Marriages Act (CAP 127). Ampomah, in a report by dennislawnews.com, told the Justice Baffoe-Bonnie-led Supreme Court, on Tuesday, October 18, 2022, to order the State …