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A Tema High Court has dismissed Chairman Wontumi’s latest charges filed against Afia Schwarzenegger. Not too long ago, the Ashanti Regional NPP Chairman dragged Afia Schwarzenegger to court for allegedly violating the terms of her release in a previous contempt case. However, after a first hearing of the case, it has been thrown …

A High Court has ruled that investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas will be allowed to testify with his mask in his case against former Ghana Football Association (GFA) President Kwasi Nyantakyi in open court. However, Kwasi Nyantakyi will be given an opportunity to see Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ face in chamber before his testimony, …

Retired Police Chief, COP Nathan Kofi Boakye has been appointed by the state and sworn in as notary public of the Supreme Court of Ghana. Until his retirement on April 5, 2023, COP Kofi Boakye was Director-General in charge of legal and prosecution of the Ghana Police Service. He was …

Kumasi-based Private Legal Practitioner, Kwasi Afrifa Esq., has filed a writ at the Supreme Court against Justice Nene Ofoe Amegatcher’s insistence to sit at the General Legal Council (GLC) proceedings in the face of his retirement last February. The writ, filed on March 30, 2023, was duly served on Justice …

An 18-year-old Ghanaian woman, Princess Owusu Ansah, has been sentenced to three years in prison by a UK court for a violent attack on her friend. Princess is said to have poured boiling water over her friend and stabbed her, allegedly in response to cheating allegations involving her boyfriend. The …

Justice Shawomi Bokkos of an area court in Jos, Plateau state, on Monday, May 8, sentenced a 25-year-old man identified as Emmanuel Christopher, to one-month in jail, for stealing a sheep.     The police prosecutor, Insp Ibrahim Gokwat, told the court that the case was reported at the Anglo-Jos …

The Akropong District Court has remanded a 35-year-old farmer into Police custody for allegedly hacking a one and half-year-old boy to death after butchering a family of three at Adankwame in the Atwima Nwabiagya North District of the Ashanti Region.     The suspect, Emmanuel Agyei, was hauled before the …

Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi is a name that reverberates in Ghana’s judicial system. The person behind the name is a Supreme Court justice who was sworn in by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as a member of Ghana’s apex court. From his poor village of Issa in the Upper West Region, Justice Kulendi beat a …

An Accra High Court on March 20, 1980 found Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo guilty in a civil suit and imposed a fine of ¢45,000 [old Ghanaian cedi]. This was after a case of reckless driving involving the politician and the plaintiff, one Mr Woledzi travelled through the magistrate courts to the High …

The trial between Donald Trump and his rape accuser began today in New York but the former US president failed to show up in court.   Journalist E. Jean Carroll, who was pictured arriving at court this morning, claims that Trump forced himself upon her in the changing room of …