The two main political parties in the country, the governing New Patriotic Party, NPP, and the opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC, are serving themselves more than the general populace who elected them into office. This is the view of lawyer Anthony Akoto Ampaw, lead counsel for President Nana Addo Dankwa …
Read More »2024 polls: NDC’s one constituency-one lawyer drive in the offing
A member of the communications team of the opposition National Democratic Congress has hinted at plans by the leadership of the party to assign seasoned lawyers to each of the 275 constituencies across the country. According to Mr Bernard Oduro Takyi, the lawyers’ duty will be to monitor the party’s …
Read More »Jean Mensa is the greatest threat to our democracy – Lawyer asserts
A Member of the NDC Legal and Communications Team, Lawyer Godwin Edudzie Tamakloe, has described the current EC Chairperson, Mrs Jean Mensa as the greatest threat to the country’s democratic experiment. The lawyer holds the opinion that the decision to allow only the use of Ghana card as the identification …
Read More »Law students should boycott School of Law entrance exams – US lawyer
Prof. Kwaku Asare, a US-based lawyer, has asked law students to boycott the Ghana School of Law exams amid reports of the undertaking they are being made to sign for the exam. Speaking on The Big Issue, he urged students to defend their LLB degrees. “They can do so by boycotting …
Read More »‘Looking at the facts, we don’t see rape’ – Lawyer of KNUST ‘gang-rape’ students
The Asokore Mampong Magistrate Court on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, remanded six students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST, for allegedly gang-raping a first-year student. All six were in court for the first hearing of their case with the judge agreeing to a request by the …
Read More »Black Sherif’s lawyer discloses musician’s mood after injunction victory
Like anyone who would rejoice over a verdict in their favour, Black Sherif is excited about the Accra High Court’s decision to dismiss an injunction application brought against him by his ex-financier, Shadrack Agyei Owusu, that sought to stop the musician from performing his songs. “How would you feel? You have a …
Read More »Nigerian lawyer dresses like ‘Juju Priest’ to court in reaction to hijab ruling
Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Malcom Omoirhobo on Thursday caused a stir at the Supreme Court in Abuja as he was dressed like a Juju priest. Malcom attended the proceedings dressed in an attire believed to be worn by adherents of ‘Olokun’, the ruler of all bodies of water and other …
Read More »Kantanka lawsuit: Lawyer accuses Sarkodie of evading court service
After an Accra High Court subpoenaed Michael Owusu Addo, known in showbiz circles as Sarkodie, to testify in respect of a suit against automobile company, Kantanka, the award-winning musician, has reportedly failed to heed. Sarkodie was expected to appear before the court on June 13, 2022, to give evidence on behalf of …
Read More »Delay’s lawyer petitions police to ‘investigate fraudulent misrepresentation’
Television personality, Deloris Frimpong Manso (Delay), has through her lawyer petitioned the Director-General, Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service to investigate a case of misrepresentation after an unidentified lady claimed to have once been her house help in a video which has since gone viral. On the back of conversations about whether …
Read More »‘This country needs a Messiah’ – Lawyer Badombie’s last Facebook post
The death of lawyer Richard Badombia has dominated news headlines since the news broke out on Saturday, May 28. He was shot and killed whiles travelling on the Bole-Bamboi Highway in a private vehicle heading to Jirapa. The Ghana Bar Association has tasked the Police to do all it takes …
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